Monday, January 05, 2009

The Last Days of Bush

Something may be happening in the Arab world well beyond Gaza. I don't want to overstate this but when you read about the largest demonstration in Kuwaiti history, or about the failure of the Saudi plan for sectarian sedition in order to lower Arab public hostility toward Israel, you realize that there are important indicators of long-term effects of this Israeli terrorist assault on Gaza. It may be said a few years from now that Bush in his last days in office managed to cause a foreign policy disaster (even from US foreign policy interests and "strategic posture") comparable to his other more famous foreign policy disasters. The same regimes that the US has been shoring up with money and/or weapons may be threatened because of this war and because of the complicity of Arab regimes along with the US.