You know in regards to Hamas' take over of Gaza, I was all ready to write a post calling for the US and NATO to step up and broker a piece deal. I even had gems like this all ready for you:"Imagine you wake up one morning and you see dudes like this outside of your window, licking shots off into the air. You didn't vote for them, hell you don't even know who they are with their ski masks and all, looking like Val Kilmer in Heat, and they tell you they're running the government now. Hey maybe you agree with their politics, maybe you even hate Israel--but gosh darnit you voted and now you feel like you supported Gore in 2000. You're right back to where you were a decade or more ago. You sigh and close the window, and are blown to bits by a stray rocket a moment later. You don't even know who fired it.
"That's the reality in Gaza right now."
But after doing a bit of research the US and NATO might have played a part in the breakdown of the unity government:
"Everyone following the conflict in Gaza knows full well that the reason for the violence is not that Palestinians have not “sorted out their politics” — they’ve made their political preferences abundantly clear in democratic elections, and later in a power-sharing agreement brokered by the Saudis. The problem is that the U.S. and the corrupt and self-serving warlords of Fatah did not accept either the election result or the unity government, and have conspired actively ever since to reverse both by all available means, including starving the Palestinian economy of funds, refusing to hand over power over the Palestinian Authority to the elected government, and arming and training Fatah loyalists to militarily restore their party’s power."
Matt seems to see it all in the same way(got the link from him as a matter of fact), not that the US play was bad, but it was poorly executed, Bush style.
I don't know, but the more crap like this seems to happen the more Ron Paul looks right. Maybe we need to mind our own business. Who the hell knows.
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I wouldn't be so sure that this was 'poorly executed' either. Simply put, by causing these folks to fight amongst themselves, eventually when a winner comes out that winner will be incredibly weakened. It's basic 'divide and conquer' methodology. An exact mirror can be seen in Lebanon as well and will likely spread to other countries in the mid-east. I suspect a rather large and long viewed plan hatched by neocons and Israeli hard liners at play.
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