How Far Gone Is Sharon?

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The Israeli government of Ariel Sharon must live in a parallel universe.

How else to explain its open discussion of removing Yasser Arafat, including by out
and out assassination?

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And the Palestinian people would not by any means be subdued. Somehow, Sharon
and his advisers have convinced themselves that offing Arafat will solve
everything.

They're dead wrong. The terrorist bombings from Hamas and Islamic Jihad will
continue, whether Arafat is dead or alive, in Tunis or Ramallah. And if he's killed,
there will be hundreds, if not thousands, of new Palestinian recruits, eager to blow
themselves up--and scores of Israeli civilians--to avenge his murder.

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[Flying_Pig]

1. "The Israeli government of Ariel Sharon must live in a parallel universe."

Change a few words. ..."The American government of George Bush must live in a parallel universe." Fits, eh?

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2. Fits.

I would call it a fantasy World, but the meaning is much the
same, and the roots in not wanting to deal with observable
trends and relationships in the reality the rest of us share
are the same. Denial is not just a river in Egypt. Societies
and cultures resist change long past the place where it makes
any sense at all in terms of self-interest.

[AndyTiedye]

3. Bush/Sharon are Deliberately Trying to Provoke the Whole Arab World to War

That IS the PNAC plan, of course.

They think they can win such a war and occupy the whole region militarily.
Considering how many troops we have in Iraq (where we are failing miserably),
one wonders how large an army they actually intend to raise, and how they would do it.

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4. Assuming what you say, and addressing the question:

"how large an army they actually intend to raise, and how they would do it?"

I'm sure they think they can just order us all to go, if it's
done right. That's what power is, the expectation of obedience,
and they think they hold power. That is their premise.

But PNAC is and always was delusional, one has to be fairly ignorant
to buy into such a plan in the first place.