I just said that! Sort of.

I didn't articulate it very well, but in this post I was trying to say that I thought Bush's victory had a lot to do with many people's fear of change, especially post-9/11. This article says it much more clearly. It also talks about the way that Arafat was made a scapegoat by the Israelis, a thought that I have had more than once in the last week.

The day after Arafat died, there was a retrospective of his life on one of the major networks (not sure which one). They showed him up on stage at some major gathering of international leaders, and they showed Bush deliberately snubbing him as though they were both 7th grade girls. I'm sure that it really made Bush feel better about himself, but most people grow out of that kind of behaviour by the age of 13. Not the fearless leader, though. This would be the man who is going to bring peace to the Middle East. Has he even heard of the concept of diplomacy? Or is that the girly-man solution?