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You're right tw, I haven't read every word of each of your long posts, so my intention wasn't to offend but to see where you were coming from.
I specifically remember you making statements such as Rumsfeld supporting torture of captured Taliban prisoners (a statement that was conjured up by the news without proof, which Rumsfeld then denied when asked about it), while either inadvertently or intentionally dismissing the other side of the story.
That's my whole problem, people on both sides who think all the blame rests with the other. For example, it seems like very few Arab countries will agree that suicide bombings of innocent civilians is terrorism. They say "if someone believes something enough that he is willing to kill himself for it, how can we say he is a terrorist?"
Statements like that are simply closed-minded, and a shallow attempt to ignore half the issue. When someone does that, all their arguments take on much less weight as far as I'm concerned (not to say you were doing that, that's why I asked). Everything you say about Sharon may be correct, but unless we deal with the whole problem, it won't go away.
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