re: 192

Nice rhetorical trick, to try to force somebody into a “Yes or No” answer, but then you pose it as an A or B! If you read anything I wrote about Sharon, you know I reject his ideas. How many times do I have to tell you that it doesn’t matter whether you were the victim of genocide or mass murder? When Sharon is able (I think successfully) to defend his statements against genocide, it actually helps legitimize his points. When George W. Bush’s critics hysterically screamed that Iraqi Freedom was an oil grab, it made the job of the administration easier to sell the war because the opoosition’s position was discredited. I had tried to argue against the war on practical grounds, but was always disregarded as a KosKid or something like that. It was a shitty debate that led us into the Iraq War, and if you let Sharon distort the debate about Gaza, it will only make things worse.