The So-Called War

Americans need to be treated like convicted criminals and have all aspects of their life, person and activities open to inspection, all to prevent terrorist attacks.
We need to have a post-9/11 mindset, we're told. The world just isn't the same anymore.

Then explain this one, from DEBKA.com, for me.

After a series of muddled statements and zigzags, wishful thinking prevailed in London and Brussels after all. The European Union, led by the Middle East Quartet, agreed to release financial aid to a Palestinian government taken over by a terrorist organization.

“We give them three months to assess the situation. We don’t want chaos and we want to go on with the peace process,” said EU foreign executive, Javier Solana at the end of the foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels Monday, 30 Jan.

Hamas, which is responsible for at least 60 bombing attacks on Israelis and countless deaths, did not have to fight too hard or too long for a reversal of the short-lived boycott on funding, sparked by its election victory over Fatah with 74 seats in the 132 Palestinian Legislative Council.

The Islamist terrorists were not required to give up a single principle for the sake of Western aid.
The stakes are high. The EU gave the PA $615 million last year. The US had budgeted $234 for 2006.

$849 MILLION freakin' dollars from the people who are supposedly FIGHTING terrorism!!??!
All set to go into the hands of Hamas.

There are only two options here:
1) Politicians are BIGGER idiots than I ever imagined (that would take some doing) or
2) This war is against free people and the removal of their rights.