Friday, June 22, 2007
What do George W. Bush and Fatah's Abbas have in common?
Answer: They both think that it is asinine to appease enemies.
The question is, will the chattering classes condemn Abbas for acting like Bush, or suppose that perhaps Bush was on to something all along?
We're not holding our breath.
5 Comments:
By 
Viking Kaj, at
Fri Jun 22, 09:12:00 PM:
Speaking of not negotiating, I miss Golda Meir.
By 
, at
Sat Jun 23, 12:56:00 AM:
Their both following a higher power of the sinister CFR
By Tom the Redhunter, at
Sat Jun 23, 02:15:00 PM:
dunno, it kind of seems that Bush is the one doing the appeasing these days. Didn't Condi just announce that we were sending $60 mill to Fatah, a group of terrorists not much better than Hamas?
I also see Bush "talking" with Syria, Iran, and the DPRK, all after saying he wouldn't.
All in all I'd say the Bush Doctrine is dead.
By Dawnfire82, at
Sat Jun 23, 02:33:00 PM:
It amazes me that no one can seem to figure out why the administration is supporting Fatah. Online, on the radio, and on TV. It's isn't complicated.
You have an enemy. A crazy, violent one who sleeps with almost all of your other enemies.
Suddenly, one day, that enemy has a fight and splits in half. Now you have a super crazy, violent enemy (Hamas) and a quasi-crazy, violent enemy (Fatah) and now they're fighting each other. All your other enemies are supporting the super crazy one and, if you had to choose, you'd rather that the quasi-crazy one won. Unfortunately, they're outgunned because of all the people supporting the super crazy one. So what do you do?
You support the quasi-crazy one.
Hamas's little coup might have just delivered us our very own Arab militia proxy group, at least for a while, and one with built-in moral support from Arabs in general. (the "poor Palestinians" effect)
It would be *stupid* to not try to take advantage of this little crisis and make it an opportunity. If we don't, someone else will. That knee-jerk reaction of "we can't deal with Fatah" is, while commendable on a moral level, why we tend to suck so badly at dealing with the Middle East. If you want to play in the sandbox, you've got to be prepared to get dirty.
By TigerHawk, at
Sat Jun 23, 02:59:00 PM:
I agree, Dawnfire82. If you believe, as I do, that we are in a global counterinsurgency against militant Islam, our primary means for defeating the enemy will be to get individuals or factions to turn on each other, either by cooperating with us or simply acting as the enemy-of-our-enemy. Whether it is Fatah, the tribes in the Sunni Triangle, or the less crazy elements of the Muslim Brotherhood, we should do what we can to create divisions. The problem, I think, comes when we feel the need to legitimize the "less crazy" bad guys with unnecessarily praiseworthy diplomatic cover.
