I don’t think Israel is the Question, nor even the answer. but as a part of the equation it certainly has been credited with a lot of emotional baggage to handle. I am in agreement with the positive assessment that all politics is local and that in resolving many of the local issues will allow the large emotional charge to fade into the irrelevance which they should be seen.

It is not an easy task, but even the Afghans with a little help initially can build their own infrastructure. Some thing Bin Laden with his contractual and conceptual ingenuity was remiss to do.

I also cleve to the notion that Bin laden is under house arrest in Iran.

Tamquam Leo Rugiens: thanks, please read the rest of the statement, if I did not make that point, I meant to, Do I need to check what I wrote again, er still, um yup.

Benj: I keep getting stuck on that alternate vision of economics.