But then, Israel is still bombing during the moratorium. Quite a diplomatic victory.
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:59:35AM -0700, Jim Devine wrote: > > >Numerous news analyses say President Bush has made a diplomatic hash > of the crisis. The NYT has the most optimistic take, saying Rice > "wrung the first significant concession from Israel" in securing the > aerial bombing moratorium. (Significantly, it was a State Department > official, not the Israelis, who first announced it.) Bush, in his > weekly radio address, suggested that the war represents a "moment of > opportunity." That statement elicits the quote of the day, in the WP's > far less sanguine take, from former Bush administration State > Department official Richard Haass: "An opportunity? Lord, spare me. > I don't laugh a lot. That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long > time. If this is an opportunity, what's Iraq? A once-in-a-lifetime > chance?"< -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
