Hawks Like Us - Instapundit

Hawks Like Us - Instapundit posts a (currently non-functioning) link to "The Filibuster", asking "maybe the hawks were right?"

We note that we're seeing:

(1) A high-profile Iranian conservative [calling] for a reexamination of Iran's relationship with Israel.
(2) North Korea may enter multilateral talks -- the kind that the Bush administration has demanded -- about its nuclear program.

More importantly, they'll enter those talks with their nuke program on the table; their intransigence on that issue is apparently ended.

(3) Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has picked a reformist cabinet. (Arafat, the power-hungry jerk, has rejected it.)

It'll be interesting to see how the Syrian deflation will affect Arafat. "Similar to China jerking Kim Jong-Il's chain" is my guess

(4) Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, ally and champion of settlement builders, may uproot his West Bank base "faster than people think."

Let's add: the Syrians are denying fast, but very tactfully. I'd suspect it's a good time to short-sell Hamas stock.

Pyongyang, Damascus, Teheren, Tel Aviv and all the other usual suspects are talking the right talk now.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Posted by Mitch at April 14, 2003 05:20 PM