Saturday, September 10, 2005
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Israpundit: Why has George W. Bush gone wobbly about rewarding Palestinian terrorism? by Paul C. Merkley - '...If history repeats itself, we can expect Bush to move closer in the last years of his presidency towards the allure of what I called in my book, the “mystical appeal” of the issue of the Holy Land: the syndrome that makes a retiring President want to enter the History books for ever as the man who brought definitive Peace in the Middle East. To achieve the Peace that the Prophets spoke about would have such a stunning effect on the whole of mankind that everything else about a President would forever be seen in the glow of that millennial accomplishment. This is a deadly seduction from reality...' (Link)
