Walt, it is impossible to be an honest broker for a cause and a people who consider honesty a weakness. Our policy should be to show the Islamic world, and especially the Arab world, that honesty will be rewarded with good faith but that treachery will result in total humiliation.
Walt, it is impossible to be an honest broker for a cause and a people who consider honesty a weakness. Our policy should be to show the Islamic world, and especially the Arab world, that honesty will be rewarded with good faith but that treachery will result in total humiliation.
Not my point. I could care less about the Palestinians.
My point is what does it say about the War on Terror? If we've made a fundamental policy shift after 35 years, why?
Is it because Sharon, a very hard ball player indeed, has said, we will share our intelligence and assets to help you better in the WOT, if you support permanent Jewsh settlements in the West Bank?
If we -need- to concede our position as "honest broker", does that indicate that we are in a fix for info?
I don't know, I am asking. I think that at least implicit in why we did this big policy change. It's scary.
Walt