Iraq Study Group Report, Very Silly

It is incomprehensible to me how sane rational people can think that the Israeli-Arab conflict is linked to the sectarian violence in Iraq. I mean, what are these people actually smoking? America invaded Iraq one hundred and twenty-one years after Leon Pinsker published Autoemancipation, one hundred and seven years since Herzl wrote Der Judenstadt, one hundred and six years after the First Zionist Congress, fifty-five years after the establishment of the state of Israel, thirty-six years after the Six-Day War and three years after the Palestinians rejected a two-state solution and launched their murderous, terrorist war against Israeli civilians. How, in the pit of Hades, can the two be related, hmmm?

The truth is that I don’t think that even these capitulators and appeasers believe it. It just makes good political sense to say these things as it’s the popular, in-vogue thing to say and provides a scape-goat for the disaster in Iraq.

The other nonsense, about talking with Iran and Syria, is also, well, nonsense. These states are run by tyrannical, oppressive regimes who are cock-a-hoop at the moment because America is so hamstrung in Iraq. They see the political weakness of Bush’s administration and his inability to take any further harsh action and are therefore running amok in the Middle East, funding, arming and hosting terrorists, starting wars, assassinating people they don’t like, threatening oil-embargoes and building nuclear bombs. Iran in particular is run by a bunch of theocrats, religiously and ideologically devoted to destroying the State of Israel, removing all American influence from the region and establishing itself as the regional hegemon. Negotiation and compromise with these nutjobs is like trying to negotiate with a hungry crocodile, who's got a really bad case of tooth ache and has come from a particularly bad day at the swamp, to find his supper's not been cooked, his laundry's not been done, the kids are playing up and his wife's gone down river for a drink with her friends. I.e., not likely to succeed