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Odd that you would flip out, Glenn about this one piece of rhetoric
Though I'm sure Indymedia, al Hayyat, the Muslim Brotherhood are making the most out of this. By the way, more Palestinians died in the intra-Palestinian fighting following the Hamas apparent victory in the 2006 elections than in the previous 6 years of the al Aqsa intifada. I'd also point out that while you are correct that Hamas per se doesn't really matter much to specifically American interests, there are not a 'single issue party.' They are as interested and vigorous at enforcing Sharia inspired compliance inside of Gaza than they are firing 8200 rockets (last count) into Israel. When Hamas took over Gaza, they locked up, beat up and killed their fair share of insufficiently Islamic Gazans, who are very very secular. They elected Hamas more to protest the PLO corruption and inefficiency, graft and crime than to prop up this offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Unfortunately for them (the Gazans) Hamas hasn't turned out to be any better at picking up the trash and running a state than the PLO was. This week alone, UN aid workers left Gaza after Hamas gunmen took their fuel. Not because they needed to reallocate it, because fuel shipments from Israel continue, but to take them out of circulation in order to exploit the PR of showing stringers for Reuters and AP darkened Gaza homes.
It's not clear what if anything McCain could or would do but it's largely rhetoric. I suppose your objection is that if anyone to the West of Greece says or does anything to anger any Arabs then that will be a catastrophe for the world, or something like that.