"Maybe Olmert has decided, barely not too late, not to go wobbly. Maybe. But I've said that about him before. All this is speculation, highly dependent on Olmert having developed a stiff backbone since last Friday, a problematic claim in itself. Time will tell. How long? I'm tempted to say not very long, but Olmert has proven to be a champion temporizer. Let us hope someone has advised him of Gen. George S. Patton's favorite saying, "L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace!""