One More Thing

Almost forgot about this item yesterday from RealClearPolitics about just who the good guys and the bad guys are and cautions about assigning moral equivalency between US soldiers and terrorists in Fallujah.

On other topices, the best quote comes from the transcript of Sunday Morning Shoutfest commentator George Will on This Week on ABC regarding the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat (who by the way is still dead):

In June 2002, the President said there's no problem getting to peace in the Middle East and the Palestinian state if the Palestinian people can generate a leadership that is a peaceful interlocutor for Israel. 60 days we're going to do it? The Palestinian people have been the most execrably led people of the 20th century. Palestinian leaders supported Germany and the central powers in the first World War, Hitler in the second World War, Stalin in the Cold War, Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War. That's a losing streak. Tomorrow morning, Palestinian children will get up and go to schools where teachers appointed by the Palestinian Authority and textbooks selected by them will teach them a kind of virulent anti-Semitism akin to that in Nazi Germany. We need ten years of de-Nazification to get over what the Oslo Accords produced when they brought that thug and his "thugocracy" back to Palestine.

While this is a realistic assessment of the peace possibilities in Palestine, perhaps Arafat's death can be the begining of this process.


- posted by Base10 @ 1:02 PM