Bush's announcement today of unequivocal support for Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's latest gambit in the conflict with Palestinians has certainly stirred the pot. Reuters reports that, "President Bush broke with decades of U.S. Middle East policy on Wednesday by saying that Israel could keep some of the Arab land it captured in the 1967 Middle East war and drew a furious Palestinian response", and the announcement has given another, fresh breath to Bush's domestic critics at a time when he can ill afford to fuel the crisis that continues to swell with the 9/11 Commission hearings.
And the growing Medusa's head represented by Iraq continues to pour forth poisonous snakes by the day. It is telling that one of the most influential and respected of conservative U. S. columnists, George F. Will, begins his most recent article with:
At the battle of Shiloh in April 1862, a wounded soldier who had been told to leave his weapon and go to the rear soon returned, saying, `Gimme another gun. This blame fight ain't got any rear.' Neither does the fighting in Iraq, which one Marine officer compares to `scaling a live volcano.'Will clearly sees that characterizing the Iraqi "insurgents as merely `thugs' who `hate democracy' trivializes what is not trivial ... " and threatens the same fate that befell 12th century crusaders.
Note: Reuters most recent article
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Bush this year. The sooner the better. Why isn't he in jail already?
That's how the light get in..."
Leonard Cohen
One of my all time favorite lines from a song.
If only the light would start to get through to Bush. He's been living in the dark for far too long now.