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Originally Posted by iamwhatiseem
"tough and principled diplomacy" --- damn, that is right out of Jimmy Carter's mouth.
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Yeah. And we know that never worked, right?
Camp David Accords
Furthermore, the original poster may want to look up the definition of
eliminate before making assumptions regarding Obama's intentions.
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Eliminate
Verb
* S: (v) extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with (terminate, end, or take out) "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
* S: (v) obviate, rid of, eliminate (do away with)
* S: (v) eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off (kill in large numbers) "the plague wiped out an entire population"
* S: (v) rule out, eliminate, winnow out, reject (dismiss from consideration or a contest) "John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi"; "This possibility can be eliminated from our consideration"
* S: (v) excrete, egest, eliminate, pass (eliminate from the body) "Pass a kidney stone"
* S: (v) eliminate (remove from a contest or race) "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race"
* S: (v) eliminate (remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations)
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It's a pretty broad term. Essentially, all it means is
to remove.