Signs that your past sympathizers are abandoning you:
One can but wonder how Arafat is feeling these days. Once again we are told by the middle-east "establishment" that
violence will only make things worse. This is what we were told before Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan and now Israel. When will they tire of being wrong. I respect one standing by one's opinion, but when you're so far off base so often, it become foolish. See the TNR book review for
Robert Kagan's analysis of the Foreign Policy establishment's thinking as it has evolved from the early 60's to now in his review of David Halberstam's
War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals.
