Cheney to Meet Abdullah
Charles Johnson
Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 6:27 pm PST • Views: 228
As Vice President Dick Cheney prepares to travel to the world’s center of militant Islam, I happen to be rereading Hatred’s Kingdom by Dore Gold. And I’m not getting that warm, secure feeling for which I yearn.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will travel to Saudi Arabia on Friday for a meeting with King Abdullah to discuss issues of “mutual interest” in the Middle East, Cheney’s office said.
Their talks come as the White House weighs a shift in strategy on Iraq amid raging violence there and after huge losses for President George W. Bush’s Republican Party in U.S. elections dominated by voter frustration over his war policy.
Bush will go to Jordan, another U.S. ally in the Middle East, next week for a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on how to speed up the transfer of security responsibilities from U.S. forces to the Baghdad government.
Cheney’s talks in Saudi Arabia also are likely to encompass Washington’s anxiety about stability and democracy in Lebanon after the assassination this week of cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria.
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