[USAF_ret]

My apologies if this has been posted. It didn't coome up on a search. It looks like Sharon has lost the support of one very important US conservative with impeccible credentials.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for posting this. Finally a voice of reason! IMO Israel is paying for clinton and company getting involved in the election that allowed Barak to come to power and that gave us Sharon.

At the same time clinton and company gave total credibitiliy to the Palestian Movement headed by Arafat which they did not deserve. Ms. clinton can rant all she wants about what this Administration is not doing but she is the one with the picture kissing Arafat's wife on the cheek and they are the couple that had Arafat to dinner in the WH and made this terrorist an equal partner with the duly elected President of Israel.

Israel would have been much better off as Buckley suggests to round up Arafat and his Lieutenants and execute them as terrorists!

My two cents!

[arielb]

if the US sent in ground troops into Kandahar in a similar operation, we would've captured Mullah Omar. Instead we let others do the job for us and he escaped. Failure to seal off Tora Bora meant that we let Osama and Zawahiri escape too. In contrast, Israel was able to capture or kill over 5000 wanted terrorists including Marwan Barghouti. Israel was also able to find lots of valuable intelligence including bomb factories. Remember when the press went into Kabul after it was taken over and found all sorts of info before the CIA was able to get their hands on it? If you don't seal off the battlefield, everyone will escape just like Al Qaeda did in Afghanistan by the thousands.

[AzJP]

Well written, as we'd suspect from him.

Whenever I read Buckley I want to ask questions of him. This time I'd ask if Bush will start to lose popularity to the point of jeopardizing his re-election.

I already hear grumbles about the budget growth, fed government growth, and the ten billion to not find bin Laden. These are grumbles from folks that voted against Gore.

Tim

[Big Bunyip]

It looks like Sharon has lost the support of one very important US conservative with impeccible credentials.

Nah. A couple of posts from now, you'll be reading how Mr. Bill is an anti-semite. In the meantime, while the U.S. is forced to deal with this nonsense, Saddam is smirking.

Dismantle the settlements. Isolate Yasser and his scum behind wire and land mines -- and then we can to turn our attention Baghdad.

But Sharon won't lift a finger against the settlements, so the war on terror is on hold and US policy is held hostage by settlements filled with zealots.

[veronica]

I think this is the 4th posting of this article. I suppose with the GOP lining up solidly behind Israel, and Sharon, this one article is comforting to some. ;-o

[Masada]

It's in moments of crisis that you find out who your true friends are. Buckley has never been more than a fair weather friend of Israel. He defended Buchanan and claimed that the Nazi apologist wasn't antisemitic. He's a Catholic who has defended the Pope's craven betrayal of the Jews and cooperation with Nazis. And now he uses Serge Schmemann, an enemy of Israel who the New York Times allows to masquerade as a reporter, as the basis for an attack he must have been longing to make for years.

Mr. Stab In the Back Buckley is just showing his true colors. Why be surprised - and why post this trash when the real goal should be to stand behind Israel?