I saw Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations on MSNBC last night talking about foreign policy with Tom Brokaw and Obama adviser Susan Rice. The Israel/Palestine issue was the subtext of much of the conversation. Rice said that Obama would not put off action on I/P till the second term. Haass said that the U.S. finds itself increasingly alone in the world and the U.S.'s "Achilles heel" is its Middle East policy--an apparent reference to Israel/Palestine.
