Saturday, February 07, 2004

On US Israel policy Posted here Saturday, February 07, 2004 at 2:12:53 PM     To the extent that our Israel policy is embedded in our terrorism strategy, it can't be taken on directly. To that extent it's not as much a question of courage as logic. At that level it seems we either persue policues that polarize and defend, or policies that integrate and appreciate. That is the real choice. At this point I am convinced the terorism glue makes taking on Israel  and Palestine a non-starter. That doesn't mean that the situation there won't explode: logic of an ideology is not the same as reality. It is part of the cost of the imposition of a totalitarian view, and why the costs of Bush policy reimpose the blindness of details that accompanied the cold war. ********