On the increasing success of terrorism, as evidenced by the Bush administration’s being yanked around on a string by Arafat and his Islamo-fascist allies:
Here is a brief comparison for you: Like the negative campaigning in US politics which is so often referred to as “the politics of personal destruction”, terrorism works. Every year, politicians launch low brow and even slanderous attacks on the character of their opponent, every year the public acts disgusted, and every year they go to the polls on election day and cast their ballot for the candidate who slung the dirt. Its a time honored tradition. The fact is that as much as the public complains about such tactics, mud-slinging politics works.
The terrorism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is no different. Leaders from around the world can give some truly powerful lip service to the idea that terrorism is a scourge which should not be accepted. But terrorism creates and escalates violence, and violence gets attention. Attention gets results. That is why terrorism will continue to be a prominant tactic in the future of international politics.
I hope President Bush can prove me wrong.
So do I, brother. So do I.
The Dish 