Posted on 05/05/2003 4:17:48 PM PDT by Dog Gone
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
For months conventional wisdom on the Middle East--incessant and universal--has been that 1) the Bush Administration has neglected the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and 2) as a result, things have gone from bad to worse.
This is nonsense squared. If someone had told you at the time of the Passover massacres of 2002 (seven suicide bombings in seven days) that a year later terrorism deaths would be down more than 80%, Yasser Arafat would be edged aside, a new reformist Palestinian leadership would be approved, Palestinian finances would start to become transparent, and negotiations between the parties would become possible once again, you would have said this is utterly fanciful.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I was about to stutter something about the absolute ASTOUNDINGNESS of such TRUTH being published in Time "Binny for Man of the Year, 2001!!" Magazine - after all, Clinton's Mideast 'policy' is what BROUGHT the latest intifada, which started during Clinton's watch, and some Jews have belatedly discovered that Bill and Hillary Clinton are NOT Isreal's friends....
Then I scrolled up and saw the article was written by Charles Krauthammer. Well, it's not surprising that Krauthammer wrote it, but it's STILL astounding that Time published it.
There's a pun in there somewhere....
They would wonder when he will end the death penalty in Texas. BUT he would get reelected by 70 to 30 and add more senators than in the last election.
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