FAMOUS BRITISH LIBERAL LAUDS OBAMA - AS AN APPEASING MULTILATERALIST WILLING TO MAKE A DEAL WITH THE TALIBAN, IRAN AND OSAMA

• LORD ASHDOWN WAS THE LONGTIME LEADER OF THE LIBERAL PARTY IN GREAT BRITAIN. (HE THEN GOT A BIG JOB AT THE EU.)
  

• HE WAS ALMOST APPOINTED TO BE THE UN'S HIGH ENVOY TO AFGHANISTAN.

• HERE'S WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT OBAMA AND AFGHANISTAN:

GUARDIAN:

Appearing in Bournemouth, Ashdown released a memo he sent to the prime minister in December last year revealing advice he offered to the government, but told his audience that since then the situation in the country had worsened.

... The original memo Ashdown sent to the British government in December 2007 said:

"We do not have enough troops, aid or international will to make Afghanistan much different from what it has been for the last 1,000 years."

Even if such resources were found, Ashdown wrote that he did not think it would be possible to turn the situation around within 25 years.

Ashdown called for a regional agreement, similar to the Dayton peace agreement, involving all the regional players and especially Iran, saying he thought a change in the White House might be the answer.

He said: "A new president in the US might just be able to do this. Indeed, given [Barack] Obama's courageous statements in favour of multilateralism and dialogue with old enemies, he might well be the single person in the world best placed to pull off such an enterprise."

I THINK HE IS WRONG ABOUT AFGHANISTAN, BUT RIGHT ABOUT OBAMA.

• OBAMA WOULD MAKE A DEAL WITH THE TALIBAN, OSAMA AND IRAN.

• IT WOULD BE JUST LIKE THE DEAL CHAMBERLAIN GOT IN MUNICH.

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