Think back, almost ten years, to September 13, 1993. How many of us were cautiously optimistic, after that forced handshake on the White House lawn? How many of us were euphoric? How many deeply cynical? But most of us (not all) back then were informed largely by the same sources -- what we saw and read in the newspapers, network TV, NPR, CNN.
Today, it's rather different. It's as likely as not that anyone with whom you discuss the "road map" will be basing his or her opinion on a very different set of sources than you will. Reasonable minds could always differ. Now, they can differ even more subtlely.
Here, from one web source, are two entirely different points of view on the subject of what sort of pressure the U.S. administration intends to bring to bear to implement this newest Osloian quick fix. This one and this one. (Hopefully the links are working, but it's Blogger....)
I don't make much of a secret which way I go. You read, you decide.
