For a couple of weeks before the election I expounded a belief that there would be no election.
Certain that Hamas would win big, and mistakenly believing that the State Dept was at least awake, I believed Abbas, Israel and the US would use the pretense of Israel not allowing voting in Jerusalem to postpone the election.
Instead in a act of remarkable incompetence Rice pressured Israel to allow Arabs to vote in Jerusalem- damaging Israel's sovereignty there- and allowing the election to proceed.
I then thought that the plan must be to rig the election.
So when the initial vote came that Fatah had won, I was convinced that had occurred. It wasn't possible for me to imagine the US- Rice- would allow an honest election where Hamas was sure to win big.
I turned out to be wrong. Rice and State and Israel too, are incompetent and foolish to the point of tragedy.
If she is wrong about something so easily understood and so damaging to American interests, how wrong is she about the difficult stuff?
I am with you.
As I have said in more than one answer to questions on this thread - John Kerry = Nicholas Burns = top advisor to Condi at State. You can see his appeasing thread running through State Department actions everywhere he goes for Condi.