I'll say "Let's roll". We'd have to intervene. But there are plenty of other possible outcomes. I'll reserve judgement until we get more details.
If Gaffney wanted to exert his influence on Rice, he should have refrained from starting out by comparing her to a rapist. It's bad salesmanship, and it's counterproductive.
I don’t follow Gaffney closely. It seems he has some pretty dire concerns about this conference. Seeing those concerns as he did, he was compelled to level both barrels. And that may have been inappropriate. I do think this conference is ill advised in the extreme, but others are quite certian it offers up no dire consequences so we’ll have to wait and see.
Remember that Arab girl that we’ve read about on the forum, the one that was gang raped, then punished more severely than the rapists? I kindof see Israel in that light. It is attacked time after time after time, then it is scolded by the whole planet for reacting, and then it is forced into these conferences where it is demanded to give up more in the interest of peace. And what penalty do the Palestinians pay? Why none of course.
Israel gets the 200 lashes and a time out in the dog house, and the Palestinians get some U.S. representative to demand statehood on their behalf, and half ownership of Jerusalem.
If only you and I could only be punished like the Palestinians are.
The only ones who have any sway over Rice are the Saudis, from whom her mentor, Brent Scowcroft, receives most of his "consulting" income, and who Condi is desperately trying to please with this screw Israel "conference".