What Happens Next?
Three Americans were killed in Gaza. The "powers that be" likely know a lot more about this than we do, so the State Dept. advised Americans to leave Gaza. The Palestinian "usual suspects" were almost too quick to deny knowledge and responsibility. So what does this mean and why is this important?
First of all, it shows that the Palestinian authority does NOT have control of every little thing in the territories. If they did, this attack would not have happened. It is so far counter to the best interests of the Palestinians that only a complete renegade nincompoop would have done it.
Why is it counter productive? First off, the Israelis already agreed to start pulling back from Gaza. Not a great idea to give them an excuse to stay for that overused catch-all phrase "security reasons." Secondly, when our Commander in Chief has a history of cowboy diplomacy, it's not terribly wise to give him any excuses either.
So why do it? Why paint bulls eyes on the backs of every Palestinian militant (or militant look-alike) in Gaza? Who would WANT the peace process to fail? Who would WANT the Shrub to get a bug up his butt and start blowing up anything around the region that might possibly maybe sometime in the last 10 years have harbored terrorists?
Who could it possibly be? Could it be....SATAN?!?!?!. Or instead could it be someone completely STUPID? Some idiot who thought it would be a fun idea?
In either case, I certainly hope that the Shrub doesn't take the bait and use this incident as a political catalyst for expanding the "War on Terror" to include as much of the Middle East as possible. Time will tell.