'Clear thinking'?

The Sunday New York Times has published what it calls an 'op-ed classic.' It's an October 2000 editorial by Chas Freeman on the 'Palestinian' war against the Jews. For those who are mystified by the date, October 2000 was about three weeks after the 'Palestinians' started the Oslo War. If this editorial is meant to show us the 'clear thinking' that Freeman was to bring to intelligence analyses, I