>brad mayer wrote:
>That moment may have arrived. This whole episode smells like a
>premeditated provocation straight out of the Ariel Sharon playbook. And
>it makes sense - why would the Bushies set a hard and fast date for
>"handover" (to help get Bush re-elected), only to allow whatever
>pathetically weak puppet regime they left behind to be immediately
>overthrown?
>
>--i think doug has a point here, what makes you think that the US needs
>Ariel Sharon to teach them any of this stuff? is it really any
>different than the US strategy in that quagmire known as Vietnam? or
>much of its strategy in Central America during the 1980s [unless of
>course your theory is that Sharon was somehow leading the US to its
>choices in those two regions as well...?]...
I'm leaning towards the theory that Cde Mayer has some form of Tourette's syndrome.
Doug