Posted on 04/17/2002 7:44:59 AM PDT by RCW2001
Whatever. Yessir Arafat is unhappy, and called the meeting with Powell (through his aides) a "catastrophe", which means we must be doing something right.
Arafat pissed, Sharon smiling....works for me. I'd say the trip was a success.
. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat(R), in a picture handed out by his office, meets with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in Arafat's Ramallah office, April 17, 2002. Arafat said Israeli troop pullbacks were a sham and one of his aides accused Israel's Ariel Sharon of torpedoing Powell's peace mission who will leave the Mideast after failing to clinch a cease-fire agreement. (Hussain Hussain/Reuters)
Finally.
Thanks, W.
Geezus, I tried to tell everyone on this board that the meetings with Arafat were just for show, designed to buy time for W, appease the Eurotrash, get the Arabs off the streets, and give the IDF time to wrap things up. No one would believe me. Everyone was bashing Bush. Now, even El Rushbo has come around to the idea that this was all "strategery" (having read the Andrew Sullivan column that explained it all). Now, Arafat has been taken down a peg. He loses everything when Saddam is overthrown.
Oh, and one more thing. Bush gave notice on April 4th that Syria and Iran should "stay out" of the conflict. In today's speech at VMI, he said that the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was "the first" regime to fall in the War on Terror, implying that there would be others.
All remains on track, as I suspected it would.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
YEP ... I heard the President's speech was really good ..
But I missed it .. I am soooo mad ..
Arafat being brought down a peg (nicely put, BTW) is an excellent outcome in itself. In the long run that may do more for the good guys than any other currently known outcome.
Power buys time better than what happened.
W at his best, and in a form that should be applied by the Golden Rule.
In reality, Sharon has hammered the management team of the PA's the past two weeks and really made them an endangered species in Israel.
Your summary needs to be repeated and here it is again:
Geezus, I tried to tell everyone on this board that the meetings with Arafat were just for show, designed to buy time for W, appease the Eurotrash, get the Arabs off the streets, and give the IDF time to wrap things up.
No one would believe me. Everyone was bashing Bush. Now, even El Rushbo has come around to the idea that this was all "strategery" (having read the Andrew Sullivan column that explained it all). Now, Arafat has been taken down a peg. He loses everything when Saddam is overthrown.
Oh, and one more thing. Bush gave notice on April 4th that Syria and Iran should "stay out" of the conflict. In today's speech at VMI, he said that the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was "the first" regime to fall in the War on Terror, implying that there would be others.
All remains on track, as I suspected it would.
So Chris, which despot Islamic Thug ruled country is next? Iran, Iraq, Syria or ??
So Chris, which despot Islamic Thug ruled country is next? Iran, Iraq, Syria or ??You mean, which Arab goon will swing from a lamppost? Well, of course, it's Saddam. Saddam is the first domino, the one that sets the precedent, followed by Assad's boy, Bashir. Finally, the Iranian ayatollahs are sitting on a restive population.
Methinks Bush's ambitions are directed at all three countries.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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