Blackhacker

Duane of blackinformant asked these 2 questions:

#1. Will this move curb the suicide attacks by by Palestinian terrorists?
#2. If it doesn’t will those who have made this assumption own up to their miscalculation?

I want to add one more:
What does this say about terrorism as a tactic? Apparently it it works. I would expect that simular similar tactics might be taken by the holdouts who don’t want to move. The difference is they will not have the support of the Israeli Govnment Government to back them up.

It looks like the Bush Administration is also learning this lesson as well as it finally starts to shed some of its staunch optimism, in favor of a more realistic view of the situation if Iraq.

U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
Administration Is Shedding ‘Unreality’ That Dominated Invasion, Official Says

By Robin Wright and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 14, 2005; A01

The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.

The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.

“What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground,” said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. “We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we’re in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning.”