Instapundit, six years ago Tuesday:
"…the TV footage of jubilant Palestinians just proves what I’ve always suspected — they just don’t get it. They’ll learn. Oh, how they’ll learn…their jubilation will be long remembered. The American role as ‘mediator’ in the Middle East is over. Since — though they don’t realize it — that’s the only thing that has kept the Palestinians in the game since 1991, their future is likely to be grim, now."
Hasn’t turned out that way, after all, as the Gazan Entity’s rockets continue to rain down on Israel.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Okay, that’s ONE of my reasons I don’t hang out in those places – the big-shot bloggers – on both sides – make all these wild prognostications, stating them as fact, logical inevitabilities, then nobody ever calls them on them when they are proven to be just another dumbass, like the rest of us.
Okay, that’s ONE of my reasons I don’t hang out in those places – the big-shot bloggers – on both sides – make all these wild prognostications, stating them as fact, logical inevitabilities, then nobody ever calls them on them when they are proven to be just another dumbass, like the rest of us.
He did blow that one. But most of the time he doesn’t make pronouncements. In fact, he’s generally a lot more measured in his opinions than you or me. Which is one reason why I like to read him.
He did blow that one. But most of the time he doesn’t make pronouncements. In fact, he’s generally a lot more measured in his opinions than you or me. Which is one reason why I like to read him.