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thisficklemob in liberalrage

International headlines &c.

Jul 06, 2006 12:39

The U.S. thinks China may be the best bet to solve the North Korea situation. North Korea, though, wants talks directly with the U.S. I'm not precisely sure why we don't want those, except that we don't want to reward their missile launches or give them a bigger platform to make demands. Or maybe it's a tacit admission that our diplomatic ( Read more... )

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patrickdean July 6 2006, 16:54:00 UTC

Hey, give Kim Jong-il and his missle a break. He ws nervous. Yeah, that's all.

thisficklemob July 6 2006, 16:57:57 UTC

Hee!

Funniest WMD evah.

xiaomi July 6 2006, 17:22:47 UTC

The Gaza thing is a mess, I'm not sure they should be doing something this wide-scale, but no, the PA wasn't doing much. PA President Abu Mazen has been talking about it, but with the Parliament and PM firmly under the control of Hamas, he barely has enough power to screw in a lightbulb :(. The Hamas-controlled Parliament and their PM have been throwing fuel onto the fire (not that Israel isn't throwing on more fuel).

This isn't going to end well. He's probably not going to be found alive, but Hamas is using Gaza as a massive human shield, and it's horrific on all sides. I guess I don't see letting Hamas's tactic work as being any better, I think the Israelis feel like they have to do *something*. Part of me wishes that if they're going to reoccupy it they do so all-out to at least get folks like Magen David Adom in there and the like. This limbo is bad for everyone ( ... )

thisficklemob July 6 2006, 17:36:47 UTC

The Gaza thing is a mess, I'm not sure they should be doing something this wide-scale, but no, the PA wasn't doing much. PA President Abu Mazen has been talking about it, but with the Parliament and PM firmly under the control of Hamas, he barely has enough power to screw in a lightbulb.

Well, all I know is, he was doing enough to make some Palestinians angry at his cooperation. (Heard some guy being cranky about it on the radio.) Which, in the long run, probably gets nothing done except turn people further away from the PLO.

I think that at this point Olmert has lost his patience and is trying to use the vice not to get the soldier back but to force the Hamas government to collapse... it's a last-ditch effort and I doubt it will work, and if it does, what's next?Yup. The biggest problem I see with this losing patience of Olmert's is that it seems so... temper tantrum-like. Over-reaction. Water and power are clearly necessary for civilians to live, so cutting them off seems indiscriminate, and, well, terrorist-like. It's like ( ... )

xiaomi July 6 2006, 18:02:43 UTC

Re: Temper Tantrum. The US news hasn't been covering the situation as much, but this has been long in coming. Gaza is largely radicalized as it is, and Gazan rockets have been raining down on Ashkelon for weeks now (within the 1967 borders of Israel). It's less tantrum than it is desparation, as the IDF has largely not been responding to the Katyushas and other rockets being fired on Ashkelon ( ... )

thisficklemob July 6 2006, 18:19:08 UTC

Oh yeah. Plenty of guilt to go around.

I don't know about disengagement, depending on what you mean by that. Not negotiating with the Palestinian gov't because it's run by Hamas is one thing. Trying to put a wall up between Israelis and Palestinians (and grabbing land in the process) is another.

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