As If You Needed More Proof, It Turns Out That The US Policy of Arming "Moderate" Terrorists Doesn't Work
One of the perennially frustrating aspects of US Mideast diplomacy is how the State Department insist that the best-of-all-Palestinian-evils is someone who should be actively supported. So when it was Hamas vs. Arafat, they supported Arafat - even though Arafat was an unrepentant terrorist. And now that it's Hamas vs. Fatah, they're committed to supporting Fatah with troops and training. We went off about this a couple weeks ago:
An $86 million U.S. program to strengthen Abbas's presidential guard will include funding for four-wheel-drive vehicles, new uniforms and military training, diplomats briefed on the program said. "The IDF's objections in this case center on equipment, such as body armor
The infuriating thing is that everybody knows that the US is just going through the motions and mouthing the proper assurances. No one really believes that the US has either the will or the ability to keep the "good" Palestinian soldiers from giving their weapons to the "bad" Palestinian terrorists - or to prevent the "good" Palestinian soldiers from becoming "bad" Palestinian terrorists themselves, and keeping their US-made weaponry... The US can't keep its F-14 parts from getting sold to Iran. Forgive us a little bit of skepticism about their ability to keep three sets of untraceable body armor from being handed over a back fence at 1am in Ramallah.
And here's an Islamic Jihad terrorist from yesterday, gloating about how they've turned Fatah back toward the worth goal of killing Jews:
Here's an idea: being "more moderate" than genocidal terrorists doesn't actually make you "moderate". That's something that most adolescents can figure out. Yet it seems to escape the nuanced reasoning of most American Mideast analysts.
Previously: Fatah Operatives Launch Rockets At Israeli Schoolhouses, Hospitals, US State Department Shines Again, Oh, So The Al-Aqsa Terrorist Brigade Is Loyal To Abbas After All?
