[HiTech RedNeck]

In a strange way, perhaps a way he anticipated, Ariel Sharon's bold decision to remove the Jewish settlements from Gaza, and turn the territory over to Palestinian self-government, clinched the issue. If the subsequent rocket attacks from Gaza, then Lebanon, could be predicted by me, they would have been predicted by him.

yup he wanted a country that can actually be warred against. the mooselimbs are sooooo stupid.

[foreshadowed at waco]

I agree that Sharon understood that only a country can be held accountable for its behavior...the 2004 resolution demanding that Lebanon disarm the terrorist militia has been used effectively by Bolton and the Israelis to ram it down the UN's throat...if they won't clean up the crap in their own countries we will step in and do it for them...and the Sunni Arab street is being pretty quiet...they don't want a Shiite monolith in the ME run by the Persians/ Iranians, the only non Arab country besides Israel in the neighborhood...a nuclear Iran threatens them more than it threatens the USA IMHO.

Prayers for the good guys.

[Iris7]

Ariel Sharon played the moslems like Hendrix played a guitar.