From “Barack Obama’s Diplomatic Code Words,” in today’s American Thinker:
Barack Obama apparently has trouble with diplomatic code words. Former Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, Obama’s Middle East advisor, told the Israel Policy Forum that Obama did not realize that "undivided" was a diplomatic "code word," meaning "undivided," when the candidate delivered his prepared speech at AIPAC. In that speech, he declared — in a paragraph beginning with the words "Let me be clear" — that Jerusalem "must remain undivided." . . . .
At the Israel Policy Forum, Kurtzer said it was “unfortunate that so much time was being spent dwelling on one word of a 30-minute speech." But even more unfortunately, we now need to consider two other words Obama used in his speech, and ask whether he understood those "code words" as well.
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