Re: "Grand Expectations": That is NOT a Pulitzer Prize-winning tome but rather a Bancroft Prize-winning study of WWII and its aftermath in the United States. I apologize for my mistake.

P.S. The Bancroft Prize is awarded annually to "distinguished works" in American history and diplomacy by Columbia University.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/amerihist/bancroft.html

http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Expectations-United-1945-1974-History/dp/0195117972/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231267699&sr=8-1

I think Glenn misses some key points as well, at both the fundamental and practical level...

Care to complete your thought about that practical level? What is the pragmatic solution? Where, or what, is the incentive for Hamas to cease launching 'rockets'? What has been offered so far, obviously, is insufficient. Tell me how this ends...

Please note, there are knowledgeable individuals out there who assert

The big long-term problem Israel has is that its assiduous colonization of the West Bank has made a two-state solution almost impossible, turning it into an Apartheid state. And if you go on practicing Apartheid long enough, that begins to attact boycotts and sanctions. And forestalling a Palestinian state means that likely the Palestinians will all end up Israeli citizens.

[...]The Palestinians are Israel's problem. War on them, circumscribe them, colonize them all you like. They aren't going anywhere, and you can't keep them stateless and virtually enslaved forever, occasionally exterminating some of them as though they were vermin when they make too much trouble. That, sooner or later, will lead to boycotts by rising economic powers and by Europe that could be extremely damaging to Israel's long-term prospects as a state. - Juan Cole

http://www.juancole.com/2009/01/gaza-2008-micro-wars-and-macro-wars.html

I also had mentally pegged DM as a guy.

He's not a guy. He's a mensch.

What is truly pathetic, "Jebbie," is the following:

1. Slavishly, blindly and unthinkingly believing every belabored viewpoint expressed by Herr Greenwald, no matter how much it may defy rationality, history, common sense or objectivity. Think for your own goddamn self.

2. Ceaselessly prowling the comments to Herr Greenwald's blog posts, poised to pounce on and condemn as a "troll" anyone who dares to depart from the Greenwald party line. 1,798 Salon comments? Jesus, "Jebbie," get a motherfucking life. Or at least a real job.

3. Shamefully hiding behind the ability to post anonymously in Herr Greenwald's comments section. Attacking others anonymously is the cowardly act of someone who lacks the courage of his/her convictions. It is not only pathetic, it is also the mark of a chickenshit.

A bit of parting advice: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You seem to take great pride in being a complete ignoramus, even though, sometimes you seem to have flashes of intelligence and insight.

You are one of those sometimes amusing loons one just hopes does not have children of his own. It would be so unfair for some innocent child to have a mad father like you, Dirthbag.

Perhaps 'Gwen' does not mind that he's enabling casual and lowly haters such as you with his anti-Israel bias. Clearly he's an example of fine Jewish achievement if nothing else. Probably I disagree with him on just about everything with the exception of gay marriage, but he is well spoken and he can write, I'll gladly give him that.

You, on the other hand, seem to just revel in a tank full of your own puke and feces, Dirthbag. Clearly you are both funny and smart, just like Groucho Marx, and, still, you resent Jews like Groucho Marx. A few who serve your sick purpose like 'Gwen' get a pass. Perhaps some beauty named Rachel or Rebecca had no use for your unwanted attentions. Would you have been a great guard at some kamp, Dirthbag, reveling in your hateful work?

There are so few of us left, but your hatred persists. Armies invade our new little country, smaller than New Jersey, and then you complain when we are victorious against all odds, and when we have the gall to keep the high ground we won with our own blood after repeated invasions and provocations.

What is it, Dirtbag? What gives? Is it that you are really a real LOOSER, Mooser, who still squanders his potential lolling about the house on the web all day long? Do you resent our culture of achievement? Does it bother you that our grandparents came here with nothing and now we are 40% of the Forbes 400, 20% of the professors at leading universities, 33% of American millionairs, and 20% of all Nobel laureates, 40% of the partners of NYC's and DC's leading law firms, 11590% more than our population's statistics?

Will you spare the Greenwalds of the world who help you condemn the rest of us, for just doing what the rest of humanity does when our lives are threatened?

Appreciate your response. I salute your grandfather's naval service in WW II. No one on the allied side should ever have to apologize for fighting Nazism (and its Far Eastern brother, the racists of Imperial Japan).

holds the keys to their, and their civilians, destruction. Stop dropping bombs, stop blockading Gaza, stop expanding settlements. Acknowledge Palestine's right to exist.

They are responsible for what is happening to themselves

farragut: Hamas...holds the keys to their, and their civilians, destruction. Stop firing rockets. Acknowledge Israels right to exist.

They are responsible for what is happening to themselves.

Try some new shoes on occasion.

I can only hope that since it has started they have an endgame. But you may well be right.

-- RichD

"Sorry about your sweet darling daughter, and your ever so loveable son, I was just trying to figure shit out."

What a disgusting self centered asshole you are, RichD. Face yourself.

Will you spare the Greenwalds of the world who help you condemn the rest of us, for just doing what the rest of humanity does when our lives are threatened?

-- Lotus Feet

Just think! You and shitter242 could caress and dip the stick with each other while hiding in fear under the bed for years and years to come until the bomb drops on the two of you. You should send an email to the quivering Shooter. He'd looooove to hear from you.