Does that sound incredibly self-centered/antidemocratic to you?

[mindspell]

or am I reading this the wrong way?

"Arafat's departure from the scene . . . creates an opportunity for the US to help promote a new Palestinian leadership and resolve the problem of having no negotiating partner among the Palestinians," said Martin Indyk at the Brookings Institution.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11297470%255E663,00.html

For a champion of democracy this sounds like the US would place whom they want as the head of Palestine...

 

[xfer]

Trying to be non-political, I think it might be a language thing that causes you to feel that...the wording doesn't really connote what you suggested.

 

[xfer]

what it is saying is what the Palestinians, the world, pretty much everyone agrees: that without support from Quartet members (especially the US), the Palestinian leadership will be usurped by militants.

Arafat consolidated so much power, money, weaponry, and prestige into himself that it will be pretty much impossible for whoever is going to be a Palestinian leader to succeed without the world's support.

 

[mindspell]

Hence the question.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[goatschool]

i tend to interpret it as mindspell did, though...

 

[xfer]

explain.

 

[goatschool]

opportunity as the pivotal word, and everything else from there.

 

[xfer]

well, Arafat's death is probably the most significant opportunity that region has had for over four years.

 

[goatschool]

the context of the beneficary of that word is open to interpretation, within that passage. what i'm saying is that i can see how MS easily took it that way.

 

[goatschool]

hi i'm gnome chumpsky.

 

[xfer]

oh, yeah, I see how mindspell took it that way, but I think it was an error, not an actual connotation of the piece.

 

[goatschool]

hi. alex are you going to NY 2morrow BAC (*by any chance?)

MS, you?

 

[xfer]

no, i have a ten page paper to do for last Tuesday.

I'm going to LA on Wednesday so I'm rushing to finish lots of work!

 

[mindspell]

Nah.
Broke.
New apartment. Need to buy stuff.

 

[goatschool]

good. my muffler just dropped. fuck NY