<![CDATA[Neocons and Gaza]]>Ralph Peters in the New York Post. In a sign of obvious desperation, Glenn Reynolds linked yesterday. Read the whole thing. On the one hand, according to Peters, Arab culture is obviously permanently incapable of constitutional self-rule. On the other, we have to stay in Iraq indefinitely to ensure a success in Arab constitutional self-rule. Elegantly self-refuting, isn't it? Here's the regional analysis:

Look at Gaza, at the orgy of self-destructive savagery, the macho idiocy, the junkyard-dog religion and the murder-suicide cult sweeping Arab civilization. Then note that, barring a few fringe players, only two sides are fighting in the Gaza Strip. In Iraq, we have foreign terrorists fighting everybody, Sunni Arabs fighting Shia, Shia fighting Shia, Sunni fighting Sunni, Christians and other minorities persecuted by Sunni and Shia, Kurds struggling to preserve their patch of civilization, with American troops and our allies in the middle . . . on a quiet day. Of course, not only the Arabs are to blame: We went to Baghdad with a fantasy instead of a plan; Israel tried to compromise with genocidal killers; media commissars abetted terrorists, and our generals placed more emphasis on ducking blame than on defeating our enemies. But for all that, it's the Arabs who failed themselves, again and again and again.]]>