Karen, What was interesting about Jonathan Chait was that it is similar to havin Tom Hayden offer advice to Richard Perle. Here are a couple of paragraphs by Chait:
VOICE: Jonathan Chait, The New Republic It's Working (Complete Text) There is a virtual consensus in the American media that Israel's military operation in the West Bank will invariably fail. "Even as Israeli officials flooded the airwaves Friday to cast the military operation in Ramallah as a defense against future terrorist attacks," reports Time, "a 16-year-old Palestinian girl blew herself up outside a Jerusalem supermarket, killing two Israelis." An editorial in today's Washington Post condemns "Ariel Sharon's futile attempt to end terrorist attacks with a military invasion and confinement of Yasser Arafat." A funny thing, though--everybody was so busy talking about the futility of the Israeli operation that nobody has noticed its one, unambiguous success: a sharp decline in the suicide bombings. There hasn't been a suicide bombing since Monday, and that one injured one person and killed nobody. This suggests that the assumption underlying all the coverage of the West Bank--that Sharon's operation is bound to fail--may be entirely wrong. Indeed, if the Israeli campaign can substantially reduce suicide bombings, the entire moral calculus underlying it changes. ---------- "Karen Watters Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Also, Why Liberals Should Support the War by Jonathan Chait @ http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021021&s=chait102102 Bill Ward Bill Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] 813-295-4957 ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
