[goldstategop]

LMAO! It comes two years, too late. When he had the means and the manpower to crush and disarm Hamas, Abbas didn't do it. Now that he doesn't have either the means or the manpower, he decides to act. I'll have to say this for the "PA President": he has an impeccable knack for comedic timing!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[fella]

It comes two years, too late. When he had the means and the manpower to crush and disarm Hamas, Abbas didn't do it. Now that he doesn't have either the means or the manpower, he decides to act.

You do not defeat evil by showing it weakness.

[Gideon T. Reader]

A change ladies and gentlemen.
Tonight the part of the Cowardly Lion will be played by :Mohamed Abbas.

“I’m warnin’ ya’ here!
Ya’ betta’ do wha’ I says, or I’ll smash my face into your fist, and really mess up your knuckles. Got tha’??
Well, OK then.”

[anotherview]

I agree with you. The question now is will the U.S. and others prop up Abbas to try and get him to take on Hamas. That seems to be what the Bush administration is planning to do. I am uncomfortable with any action that gives arms to ANY Palestinian group and I have no faith in Abbas.

[elhombrelibre]

Watching Abbas (and Maliki in Iraq) reminds me too much of Alexander Kerensky defending Russia from Lenin or Franz von Papen dealing with the Nazis.