Friday, February 6, 2004
(Hat tip to mal!) I like Caroline Glick a lot. She's one of the smartest people out there, and this article makes one of the best cases for the hard-line position against Gaza withdrawal and the strategy trade-offs involved. The trouble is, it suffers from the syndrome all such "hard-line" positions suffer from - failure to name an alternative. Is the status-quo OK? It doesn't seem sustainable forever. A longer term solution is needed, but one will have to look elsewhere for that plan, as Glick doesn't offer it. It's Sharon that has to find it, and that means a strategic re-alignment (and, as an aside, potential tranfer of the settlers to the West Bank).
Still, for the other side, read Glick's piece.
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A good reason to vote for Bush
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=324481&contrassID=2&subContrassID=15&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
"The resistance movement [against the U.S. in Iraq] may not be able to remove the U.S. from Iraq within a year, but it will be able to remove Bush, [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld and [National Security Adviser] Condoleezza Rice, together with their Zionist friends, from the White House," Nasrallah assured his listeners. Nasrallah's scenario requires no deep understanding: Suicide attacks and sabotage operations against the American forces in Iraq will cause American public opinion to turn against the president and not re-elect him, thus bringing about the disappearance of this group of leaders from the White House.