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What is terrorism? The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) was unable to define it during their three-day meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this week. Neglecting, for the moment, most Arab nations’ cowardly reluctance to condemn the suicide bombers, it is nonetheless easy to understand why the OIC felt little pressing need to give a definition to terror. If the Bush Administration, which declared the war against terrorism, has failed miserably to provide a definition for its war, why should anyone else step up to bat? This is, the Arab nations rightly implied, the United States?...
Bush has alternately condemned Sharon, and then Arafat, defended Sharon, and now Arafat. The administration has next-to-no policy on what constitutes terrorism in the Middle East, hence each side is defining it for their own ends. The OIC isn’t sure what terrorism is, but it isn’t suicide bombing. The Fatah are terrorists to Sharon, and so is the Palestinian Authority. The fact is, we have given both Sharon and Arafat, as well as our major aid recipients in the Middle East (notably, Mubarak) enough rope to hang themselves with. They have, most...
...impeachment in a century and just about everything else that's shrill, strident and entertaining about politics these days, is all done, and Bush will come back to office with one less hot potato. As Siewert said in his own words, the deal effectively means the end of the OIC's work "without the filing of any criminal charges, the obtaining of any plea or the acknowledgment of any criminal conduct...