better late than never

Go read Lileks' screed on the Gaza pullout from a few days ago. Put on your waders - the sarcasm is deep:

Perhaps it was a waste of resources to defend 8500 settlers living next to 1.5 million Muslim refugees; unfortunately you can’t give up the land without the sweet lads at Hamas claiming victory and wishing to press their momentum. I have no doubt that Gaza will be a launch pad for more attacks, and I don’t doubt that whatever economic conditions exist there today will exist in 10 years – and they’ll still be blamed on occupation. Should the rockets continue to fly out of Gaza in a year – and they will - it’ll be blamed on occupation of the West Bank. And if they give up the West Bank, they’ll be hammered for having occupied them in the first place. And so on until the tender moral sensibilities of our betters are salved with the destruction of Israel by Iranian nukes, which, while contrary to the spirit of international law, certainly does put a period to this vexatious interval.