Sharon is now a danger to US troops and hopes in Iraq

Lack of progress in the Holy Land will feed the growth of terrorism

Martin Woollacott
Friday August 22, 2003
The Guardian

The crisis of American power that has been building since the Twin Towers attacks is close to a point of no return. The bombs which brought havoc to Baghdad and Jerusalem this week and the likely collapse of the ceasefire in the Holy Land illustrate how unsteady is the American hand in the Middle East. Great enterprises demand great qualities. While the US has certainly not yet failed in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Holy Land, and has some achievements, ultimate success depends on it showing a new determination and clarity.

The Americans have been slow - slow to act and slow witted; slow to discard the assumption that Iraq and Afghanistan could easily be restored to normality after their regimes were destroyed; slow to set aside ideological preconceptions; and slow to grasp, if they have grasped at all, the deviousness of their Israeli ally.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4738542-103677,00.html

Gee, I wonder why....

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until he leaves office, whether that be 2007 or earlier. There will never be a peace agreement as long as he is prime minister.