While we are at it, the Israeli Government seems really upset at the NIE, from what their spokesman said on the BBC tonight. Doesn’t suit their agenda at all.

Yeah, reality can have that effect.

If a non-event like Annapolis can be said to already be falling apart, then this is what we are seeing with the withdrawn UN resolution and Israel’s announcement that it will build more apartments in East Jerusalem.

Finally, Khalilzad had some credibility? Who knew?

After all, once you remove the gleaming facade of a government run like a business, you’re pretty much left with massive corruption and incompetence. You know, a banana republic.

a government run like a bussiness cannot possibly succeed

bussiness is not interersted in people it’s interested in profit

and in a bussiness twenty years from now isn’t nearly as important as the bottom line this quater

a government run like a bussiness will fall as soon as the existing infrastructure comes to the end of it’s predicted life cyle

I wonder if the withdrawal of the resolution, which went down several days ago, had anything to do with the release of the NIE yesterday. It doesn’t seem all that far-fetched that one of the minority of reality-based crewmen on the Good Ship Bush-Cheney saw that, and said to him or herself “Screw It” and determined not to let yet another one of the all too few sane initiatives be killed by Cheney.