What was that Occam's Razor thing again, MississippiMan <grin> ?
There's no surprise whatsoever there, Cow. The problem is that nothing Arafat or any other terrorist says means anything. It's what they do that counts. Occam's Razor is intact. There's no brilliant strategy at work here on the part of the Bush administration, merely bumbling incompetence and weakness. Dubya's father listened to Colin Powell whispering dovish nothings in his ear and left Saddam in place. Now his son is making the same mistake. For us to be meeting with Arafat right now is an affront to decency and the epitome of hypocrisy. Anything else is spin, my friend.
MM