[highlander_UW]

I believe it was early Friday morning that I heard Sheila Jackson Lee state that Bush had no plan for victory and yet in the same sentence stated that we've already won in Iraq and it's time to withdraw our troops. So which is it...there is no plan or has the plan already succeeded? Liberals are such idiots...they clearly never listen to themselves beyond the droning sound.

[wickedpinto]

reads true. Address the problems at hand, share responsibility of other less pressing issues with allies, and then work to define the issues that will arise in the future.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

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[familyop]

"On the public level, it wants to show that it is doing everything possible to support Palestinian moderates and advance the road map plan.

The idea is to keep the Europeans and Arabs happy so they cannot accuse the United States of abandoning the problem."

That's the truth and can't be emphasized enough. The problem with the strategy (or lack of) is that the desires of western Europeans won't be satisfied (any more than the Arabs) until Israel is again called "Palestine" and Jews are absolutely banned from living there.

...Brief History here and here.