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Tuesday, April 09, 2002

Allowing yourself to be eaten by the tiger
Dr. Frank's comments on the futility of appeasement:

Tony Adragna has it right: Bush, "walking a tightrope between the State Department and DoD," lost his balance because of the recent round of unexpectedly brutal suicide attacks. His speech attempted to restore this "balance," by giving everyone a bit of what they wanted to hear. (In this sense, it was rather "Clintonian.") At best, the balancing act may buy a little time, at least until it becomes clear that the Powell mission has failed-- if there is, in fact, anyone to whom this is unclear. At some point, though, the administration will have to make a choice. None of the options are particularly enticing, but if they, like their predecessors, choose appeasement, they will in effect be giving the green light to further suicide attacks. Again.

You know, we used to hear the phrase "Do not negotiate with terrorists" a lot. That's because it works.

Whenever you make crime pay, expect to have criminals.

posted by Terry at 9:48:00 AM

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