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2004-Jan-11 ![[this day]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/images/dailyLinkIcon.gif)
The utter failure of pragmatism in foreign affairs
David Frum and Richard Perle:
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In March 2003, the Bush administration presented Israel and the Palestinian Authority with aroad mapto peace. The idea was that Israel and the Palestinian leadership would each take immediate steps to reduce tensions, with an eye to an agreement in principle on a Palestinian state by December 2003 and a final settlement in 2005.
Not one milestone on the road map has yet been traversed. The very first item listed on the text is this:Palestinian leadership issues unequivocal statement reiterating Israel's right to exist in peace and security and calling for an immediate and unconditional cease-fire to end armed activity and all acts of violence against Israelis anywhere. All official Palestinian institutions end incitement against Israel.Well, that has not happened. Nor have the Arab states cut off funds to anti-Israel terror groups. Nor have there been free elections in areas of Palestinian jurisdiction. Nor have... well, you get the idea.
Three successive U.S. administrations have sought to broker a peace. All three have made the same assumption: that the Palestinian leadership had abandoned its hope of destroying Israel and was ready to make peace. The job now was simply to negotiate the terms. It is now clear that this assumption was false. ...
The belief that Yasser Arafat's Palestinian leadership will ever sign an agreement that permits Israel to live in peace and security has been tested over the years. The test has ended in the catastrophe of Arafat's terror war. Yet America's professional diplomats, especially those we hire to be knowledgeable about the Middle East, continue to cling to this belief despite its proven and total and repeated failure.
Some Iraqi WMD found by Danish Army
A vindication of the multilateral coalition's campaign against Saddam's Baathist regime, as reluctantly reported by non-objective Reuters:
Danish troops have found dozens of mortar rounds buried in Iraq which ... contain blister gas, the Danish army says. The tests were taken after Danish troops found 36 120mm mortar rounds on Friday in southern Iraq. ...All the instruments showed indications of the same type of chemical compound, namely blister gas,the Danish Army Operational Command said on its Web site on Saturday... Blister gases, such as mustard gas, are used in chemical weapons. Blister gas, an illegal weapon which former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said he had destroyed, was extensively used against the Iranians during the 1980 to 1988 war. ... it can kill if it enters the lungs [and it has been used] primarily to debilitate infantry by causing the skin to break out in excruciatingly painful blisters.
Suicide bombing coming to the UK
Terrible news. This one got caught before Xmas, but how many other islamofascists are already in the UK, planning to mass-murder?
Sunday Times:
AN ISLAMIC terrorist suspect linked to Al-Qaeda has been arrested after apparently preparing himself for a suicide bombing in Britain. The man, an Algerian asylum seeker, had left suicide notes to his mother and sister warning them that he planned tomartyrhimself.