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06/11/2003 Archived Entry: "Middle East spinning into chaos."
Middle East spinning into chaos.
Suicide bomb in Jerusalem, helicopter gunship attacks in Gaza. Further proof (as if we needed it) that this administration's photo-op diplomacy does not work.
And a personal gripe here - if I hear one more 'roadmap' quip (CNN's Leon Harris just commented that 'the roadmap is being folded and put back in the glove compartment'), I'm gonna go Elvis on my TV. This is no time for smartass little jokes. People are dying, and the quacking heads are trying to come up with the most insipid 'road map' comment. I'll go knock myself unconscious now...
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Didn't you and Soundman do a flash video on CNN's war coverage of Iraq? Did you expect anything better in their coverage of the Israeli/Palestinian blood-fest?
It's all about the ratings, baby!
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/11/2003 01:14 PM NY
The whole israel/Palestine thing is so sad because it's only the militant factions on both sides that are causing the trouble, and the normal people on both sides are suffering.
Somebody my father met on a recent trip to the area told him "this conflict is not between Israelis and Palestinians, but between Israelis and Palestinians who want peace and Israelis and Palestinians who would rather kill eachother." I thought that was pretty apt.
Posted by Plucky Punk @ 06/11/2003 02:02 PM NY
I've always felt the "roadmap for peace" analogy to be astoundingly assinine. Seriously. These people don't need clever rhetoric. They need either a very large wall or a great lack of news coverage. If the world stopped paying attention, perhaps it wouldn't seem like the most important thing to talk about. I know bad people are killing one another, but they've been doing it for so long now that it has become a bad habit. But look around the world. Differing peoples who live next to one another have been killing each other in terrible ways for as long as people have been killing each other in terrible ways. It is not something specific to Israelis and Palestinians. It is something specific to humans. Why all the energy and focus on these people who JUST DON'T SEEM TO WANT IT? If ANYTHING we did could help the situation, it would have a long time ago. So maybe we can let them off each other away from our cameras and government officials and maybe try to keep the schools in Oregon open all year. Spend our money here, not there. We may be tired of the whole mess, but they obviously are not.
Posted by MercuryX23 @ 06/11/2003 04:03 PM NY
I've been around long enough to remember when William P. Rogers was Secretary of State ('69-'73). He, like many high-level US negotiatiors before and after him, schlepped to the Middle East with yet another initiative to end the violence.
What makes the "Road Map" unique is that it is apparently in tatters so soon after its rollout.
If there is ANY upside to all this horrific violence it's that this spectacular failure of Knucklehead's diplomacy might be a small thumbtack in the coffin of his 2004 presidential prospects.
Opps, there I go again, trying to be an optimist. On second thought, there is absolutely NOTHING that will preeventKnucklehead's inevitable landslide on '04. Why does God hate America?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/11/2003 06:56 PM NY
Please pardon my typo in the next to last sentence which should read "...there is absolutely NOTHING that will prevent Knucklehead's..."
Sorry, I had one beer too many.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/11/2003 07:00 PM NY
