April 20, 1996 was an auspicious day for me. In the morning, I bought my first house. It was supposed to be my bachelor pad. That evening I was fixed up on a blind date with ... the woman who would become my wife. The house was never really a bachelor pad, but I got my money's worth anyway. Seven years later, I'm selling the house for more than I paid for it and I'm keeping the wife. Life moves forward.
Ze'ev Schiff on The dangerous games of Bashar Assad
After what transpired in Iraq, and what happened between Syria and Iraq, the account with Assad has to take on a different character. We can no longer tolerate a situation in which the Islamic Jihad headquarters in Damascus issues a directive to blow up buses in Israeli cities and Damascus and Aleppo remain immune.
Zvi Barel poses Seven Riddles
Thomas Friedman says that the terrorism bubble has burst, just like the Internet stock bubble burst. And
Yes, this Iraq war was about Saddam. For George Bush and Tony Blair, though, I think it was about something larger, but unstated. They were implicitly saying: "This terrorism bubble has come to threaten open societies and all they value. So, we're going to use Iraq — because we can — to demonstrate to you that we'll come right into the heart of your world to burst this bubble. Take note.Read the whole thing. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 20, 2003 04:21 PM
Forgive me for being skeptical.
So I take it then that Bush will now pressurize Saudi Arabia and criticize them as his Administration and the State Department do Israel?
Yeah, right!
Who the hell is Thomas Friedman anyway?
Posted by: David Klotz on April 20, 2003 06:04 PMUm, he's the guy who declared about 15-16 months ago that the intifada was over.
Posted by: Barry Meislin on April 21, 2003 03:58 AM