Later, Blitzer came to the topic of Iran. Scowcroft said he thought it was a worrying but probably manageable situation. Blitzer turned to Zbig:. So when was the last time you heard anyone in US politics even hint that the fact that Israel has nuclear weapons might, just might, be a factor motivating other Middle Eastern nations to get them?
At the end, Blitzer asked the two old guys what the Prez should be doing on the Palestinian issue. And both of them came out in favor of the US— finally! As such, I find these character studies fascinating — a great journalist knows this, and I commend you, Helena.
As a novelist interested in character and family dramas, I wonder about old George the First. What must he be thinking? He must be wondering about the place of his family in history. He cannot be happy about it. I like to think that he may feel the hubris, know it for what it is. Strange that he looks like so much better of a President, now that we have his firstborn and namesake to compare.
I marched in the street against Bush I, protesting the Gulf War. The ironies of history. Even if there is some truth to it, we are so many light years beyond Saddam and anything he might have thought of that it is utterly, utterly irrelevant.
No settlement proposed or imposed by any American administration will ever give the Palestinians even the absolute minimum that they reasonably should be able to expect — true sovereignty in a viably contiguous territory with control over their borders, their resources, and freedom from some form of controlling Israeli presence.
