Do you really think the Taliban is going to go away now? Do you really think a freeze on settlements is going to start us on the yellow brick road to peace in the Middle East? I congratulate you. I'm sure life is more tolerable for the solutionist. Ever read David Copperfield? Then you know about "Micawberism." "Something will turn up," Mr .Macawber liked to say. The solutionist's mantra. "Something will turn up -- dead," the anti solutionist counters.
I don't think there ever will be a "good" solution to the strife over Israel. Just more strife -- if we're lucky -- or strife ending with holocaust or apocalypse, if we're not.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/09/ron-rosenbaum-on-solutionism/27192/
