If you needed further evidence that the United States has absolutely no interest in being an "honest broker for peace" in Palestine/Israel... CK
``Bush Won't Press End to Israeli Settlements White House Stance Leaves Palestinians Cold...''
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What's interesting to me, is not that these statements support Sharon, but how Bush and his administration are starting to sound increasingly irrelevant. It isn't just their ever shifting positions on Palestine and Israel, but everywhere.
The utter ineptitude of everything they say and do is starting to become more and more evident. They have no foreign policy direction, no domestic agenda, no coherent plan to restore confidence in the market, no economic policy that might shore up their own pro-corporate ideology---and all their legislative initatives for security are utterly ineffectual. Oh, these latter abuse general concepts of an open society and are oppressive and biased enough on the face of it. But they are also irrelevant to any concrete security.
And then of course where is Oshama, Omar, and the rest of the arch evil bunch we are supposed to be fighting? It's going on almost a year, a war, and supposedly the combined efforts of the US military, NSA, CIA, FBI, DOJ, etc, etc. Instead, some local cops in Spain and Germany seem to do a better job at rounding up US terrorist suspects. What's with this? Oh, yeah, and the anthrax letters, whatever happened to that investigation?
I even have mixed feelings about protesting all this nonsense. It might just be that doing nothing but watch this absurd circus devolve into a shambles might be the wiser course for awhile longer. These guys in power are spinning round in circles. With no domestic target to blame like an identifiable Left or even a Democratic opposition they seem klueless... I can almost hear them in a moment of nostaglia saying, If only we had Clinton back...
Chuck Grimes