Friday, January 27, 2006

Hamas is in charge

Good! The best way to erode a leader's popularity is to put him in charge. Do you think they'll be able to keep their poll numbers up when they're actually trying to run the whole territory?

If they try any terrorist bullshit, it becomes an official act of war, not just an infuriating act of crime. They put all their people at risk. How committed is the entire Palestinian population to the concept of joyous martyrdom?

Hamas will find out it's a lot easier to be the good guy when you don't have to worry about all the details of governing. They'll find out now that you can't fool all the people all the time. They'll discover whether the ones who do support them all the time are enough to make a workable majority.

Winning the election may be the biggest misfortune they ever suffered.

Welcome to the hot seat, boys.

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