No success like failure

[bemildred]

Cheer up ...

Like a huge oil spill in the ocean, the realization
is spreading of the failure of the military option
that was pursued for three years almost
exclusively, with unprecedented operational leeway
by a group of serving and retired army officers.
True, opinion surveys still show that the public,
in its desperation, continues to support every new
force-driven option that is supplied by the army
and Ariel Sharon.

However, with every new round of the escalation spiral - the
terrorist attack, the retaliation, the "targeted
preemption" and the bloodbaths that follow - an abiding sense
of the bitter failure is beginning to slowly trickle in.
"You do not come dramatically," the English poet Philip Larkin
wrote in "To Failure," "It is these sunless afternoons, I find /
Install you at my elbow like a bore./ You have been here some time."

Haaretz

[bpilgrim]

1. excellent article - sharons own record will do him in

it is a shame that we forget the past so quickly... but with 3 years of the hard right program in place maybe there will be no next time?

i certainly hope that will be the positive that comes out of this horrible mess sharon has brought onto even his 'OWN' people.

sharon's record for peace and even more importantly - according to him - SECURITY is an obvious utter failure before the whole world.

peace

[jos]

2. Sharon

He was supposed to bring peace and security. He has brought neither.