>The guy was 75 and lived under a lot of stress.
>I wonder - will Israel come to miss the old codger?
>Doug
such a question -- of course, they will. nothing like a handy straw man (and truculent multi-millionaire) to serve as a beard on behalf of demolishing refugee camps, the "canton-eseing", where not actually walled-off, of the palestinian aspirations for sovereignty, &c., &c. i believe the same may be true for the palestinians when sharon kicks, the flipside of one long-suffering coin -- "sharafat," in amos oz' formulation. mind you, sharon has a couple few more apache helicopters and support from d.c. than arafat ever did, and that sentence wouldn't have changed any if kerry were elected.
===== ________________________________james keepnews
The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to bring any riffraff who disagree to heel.
W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
Mr. Bush, whose administration drummed up fake evidence to trick us into war with Iraq, sticking our troops in an immoral position with no exit strategy, won on "moral issues."
The president says he's "humbled" and wants to reach out to the whole country. What humbug. The Bushes are always gracious until they don't get their way.
-- Maureen Dowd, NY Times, Nov. 4, 2004
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