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[Israpundit.com] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Greater Syria is the answer. Yes, no ...: The Palestinians in the past 40 years have only managed to succeed at winning the hearts and minds of many Westerners and turning those minds against Israel, but the Palestinians have wasted the good will they have created for themselves and abused those who have thrown money at them to build a society by literally squandering the money with nothing to show for it, except more failures, more bitterness and more hatred towards Israel.

[Faculty-staff.ou.edu] SyriaComment.com: And he mocked bin Laden’s love of publicity: “I think our brother has caught the disease of screens, flashes, fans, and applause.” In his writings, Suri rarely mentioned Al Qaeda and disavowed any direct connection to it, despite having served on its inner council. He preferred to speak more broadly of jihad, which he saw as a social movement, encompassing “all those who bear weapons””individuals, groups, and organizations””and wage jihad on the enemies of Islam.” By 2000, he had begun predicting the end of Al Qaeda, whose preëminence he portrayed as a stage in the development of the worldwide Islamist uprising.

 [Hughhewitt.townhall.com] Hugh Hewitt: (No quotes in the piece from Australia or the Blairites, btw, though much is made of the new stress on Bush's efforts to "mend the tattered relations with European allies," a process now allegedly imperiled because of the U.S.'s pro-Israel response.) Bush's political strength within his base at home has been imperiled only when it was perceived that the war had fallen as a priority in debates over such matters as border security and the ports deal. Indeed, his nomination of Harriet Miers, dismissed as cronyism by his critics or unserious by his friends, was probably the result of his desire to get a war-powers friendly justice on SCOTUS. 

[Blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au] The Australian Letters Blog: It may interest you to know also that there was great concern in the entire region that an Iranian-backed organisation (Hezbollah) was leading Lebanon into war, and while publicly condemning Israeli operations, moderate Arab governments were covertly sending messages to Jerusalem urging Israel to break Hezbollah, to remove the growing Iranian influence in Lebanon. So don’t think for a moment there is universal Arab condemnation for Israel’s actions in Lebanon.

 [Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Since the US Coalition Provisional Authority essentially stole $9 billion from Iraq to run itself and the country the first year, basically the $9 billion actually spent on reconstruction by the US was little more than a repayment of the money taken (quite illegally under the law of Occupation), and the actual US investment in Iraq is zero. While the American public is being taxed to pay a bill for Iraq mounting toward $1 trillion (and Americans are nowadays staring the tax man in the face), that appears to go mostly to finance continued search and destroy missions that are probably mostly failures as counter insurgency.

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