Cheer up. You've swallowed all of the bad without tasting reality. Things are going much better than how you've imagined.
Cheer up. You've swallowed all of the bad without tasting reality. Things are going much better than how you've imagined.
I hope you are right and I am wrong, but I have followed the developments in the Middle East for such a long time that I think I recognize the patterns.
This has been a long time coming. Norman Podhoretz warned about this development years and years ago, during the Oslo process. So far almost all his warnings have turned out to be true.
But we can pray that any cease fire initiative stumbles in Arab intransigence. I don't hold that for very likely this time around, though.
[I am sure, partly by adding a number of little noted reports] that things have been happening on the battle field that puts the IDF in a much better position than it appears. But in Middle East politics appearances are almost as important as realities, and at the moment Hezbollah appears to have stood up against the IDF and fought them to a draw.]
I'm getting sick of all the Condi bashing lately.