BUSH STILL THINKS HE'S DON QUIXOTE

I find it a bit bizarre how Bush believes that he can achieve a sense of "peace" between Israel and Palestine--when we all know that these problems between the two countries have been around for far longer than some of us have been alive.

Carter couldn't do it. Reagan couldn't. Neither Bush I or Clinton could end the decades of spiraling violence and animosity between the two nations.

So why does Bush think he can?

Because it's his last 'hurrah'.

Iraq and Afghanistan is a mess--hopelessly mired in violence and uncertainty. Pakistan is rife with chaos.

But to get the two sides to agree to a lasting peace is a worthy of a pipedream, and Bush knows this. He just wants to act like he's some Don Quixote and everyone has to do what he says.

Unfortunately, things haven't worked out for us on the foreign policy front. Everything we've taken in has turned to garbage in a few seconds flat.

People say that Bush is being tested and this is a sign of a strong leader.

But a strong leader should know his weaknesses and his strengths. If he is ignorant of one or both; going on about his business in some kind of lucid dream state...? Then he's not a leader, but a stalwart fool.

Those who follow him blindly are just as foolish--and continuing to support such a clown is inherently dangerous for this nation.

Nothing more than what went on in Annapolis will be recorded as a simple photo-op. Because both sides have such steep divisions within themselves that the only way that a true and lasting peace in the Middle East can be achieved is if one side is destroyed or another.

Schuyler Thorpe

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