In the end, it seemed to be just a chance for President Bush to show that he was "doing something," in photos of him and the unrepresentative Palestinian leader and the wildly unpopular Israeli one. But the American protestor above summed it up rather well, I think. For more, including more demo photos from both sides, go here.
They’re finally in theatre. Hope they fix that forward-looking gun problem, in case they need it.
Once upon a time, Condoleezza Rice was so cool that she–not just a woman, not just an African-American, but also a hard-nosed, no-nonsense intellectual–was touted as potential presidential material. I don’t remember when that idea died, but I think it was about the time she started pressing the Israelis to negotiate peace with their sworn enemies, the rocket-throwing, suicide-bomb-wearing Palis. Now she’s forcing them to meet next week in Annapolis for some kind of pointless "peace" conference, the usual intellectual nonsense no one believes in. Too bad. She isn’t "Condi" anymore, but just another forgettable, no-talent bureaucrat who will be replaced with another one after the ’08 election.
UPDATE: Fred on Annapolis…
"I hope we don’t try to push the Israelis into an agreement just for the sake of an agreement unless both parties are willing, and express a willingness, to have peace and the terrorists renounce terrorism."
…in the transcript of Pajamas Media’s interview of him.
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I always liked the idea of Iraq as flypaper for the bad guys. As American casualties rose, the notion fell out of favor for discussion except by critics of the effort. Maybe, too soon.
Some may say this would have been the result if we’d had more troops in Iraq in the first place. But the cause of these declining numbers is more likely to have been the switch in tactics, from conventional to counterinsurgency–which is, in itself, the wave of the immediate future of American war. Some contrarians are even calling it the most successful military campaign in history. Hope that lasts.
Via Instapundit
The booms that won’t be booming:
"Yesterday a joint US-Iraqi force with help from local anti-al-Qaeda awakening fighters in the Adhamiyah district in northeastern Baghdad found and disarmed more than 20 vehicles rigged as VBIEDs in a parking lot."
Talk about progress in the Iraq campaign. Wow.
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