Saturday, January 17, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Mere Rhetoric: Israel To Call Unilateral Ceasefire, Declare Partial Victory (Plus: Has Operation Cast Lead Achieved Anything?) - '...This sounds a lot like what's known about Livni's preferences: you don't negotiate ceasefires with intransigent lunatics like Hamas. To the extent that they force your hand, you take military action, physically degrade their capabilities, and then leave when you've done what needs to be done. Fair enough. But there's going to be plenty of second-guessing about whether Israel's actually done what needed to be done...'
