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Posted on 07/28/2003 7:12:49 AM PDT by Israel Insider
Israeli security forces say they arrested a member of PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah terror group for involvement in a cell that was to attack a crowded disco in one of Israel's coastal cities. The attack was reportedly planned and directed from Arafat's Muqata compound in Ramallah. The Israelis say the PA refused to act on the intelligence, but senior PA security sources deny it.
The arrested militant, Issim Farukh from Ramallah, confessed to his interrogators that he was expected on one of the next weekends to send two bomb-strapped young women to carry out suicide attacks in Tel Aviv or Netanya nighclubs. The two women, from the West Bank city of Nablus, were to arrive in Ramallah, and from there cross into Israel.
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Chad, are you addressing adam , or President Bush? Because, based on his domestic record so far, OUR president has given the left more that they wanted and way more than we, as conservatives wanted them to have. Granted there are a few instances where he draws a line, but it seems that even our representatives fail to toe that line in those cases (can you say senate "filibuster"?)
No, there is no dem I would vote for, and I wont PUBLICLY (I dont consider this forum of friends to be "public" discourse) denegrate W; but, he fails many tests as a true conservative.
On the whole, Bush has lived up to his pre-election image of NOT being a "right-winger", although democrats have fooled themselves into thinking that he is their vision of an extremist. Early on we waited for Bush to move from the center to the right. Except for his foreign policy (and he fails the task when it comes to Israel)he has stayed in the middle of the road.
Courier is correct ... Bush is being hypocritical when it comes to the Israeli-PLA situation. Grabbing the shiny apple of peacemaker in the Middle East has affected this president, too, and he's letting the worms eat the good apples while he spends his efforts trying to reach it. Let's hope the tree (of life) is strong enough to survive yet another misguided effort.
My point is that at the same time frame as CIC as bush's, Ronald Reagan was not shrinking government but was growing it. Reagan's legacy was not apparant nor could it have been in that time frame and Dubya's isn't either.
I DO agree that Dubya' is no Ronald Reagan for he, in my book and many others, is a 20 on a scale of 1-10, however that wasn't the case in his earlier years, BUT given time, even with his tax increases and spending he was able to turn the economy around, and do a fine job in foreign affairs at the same time. With Dubya's time frame in office and the self destruction of the liberal political base, I see the same outcome with Dubya' as with Ronald Reagan given time.
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