I've been amazed at the number of writers who, in the wake of recent events in Lebanon, think that Bush's Middle East policies may have been right all along. I'll admit that I haven't read deeply into what's been happening in Lebanon, but from what I'm reading it strikes me as more coincidence than good policy that Syria is now pulling out. In Iraq, things are certainly getting no better. If we're hearing less about it, then that's because of the twin spectres of Martha Stewart and Michael Jackson, plus the fact that reporters in Iraq are holed up in bunkers too afraid of getting shot or blown up to tell us what's really going on.
Now, don't get me wrong. I would love for what's been happening over the last week to be some sort of turning point for the better in the Middle East, but I'm highly skeptical that it is. Mostly I just wish that people were a little less prone to being jerked one way or another by the slightest change in the news...
Posted by Jason at March 8, 2005 09:28 PM