[KC_Conspirator]

Since when did Bush have this policy? It's nothing more than a figment of the media's imagination which has suddenly acquired the status of reality.

I like Pinkerton, but I think he is off the mark. The lefties in the press (and the DNC) have always argued that Bush was not "engaged" with the middle east. He always has been engaged, but he has not signed false accords like Oslo or invited terrorists to the Wye Plantation so he could get the Nobel Peace Prize.

These same people are now calling for US troops to be placed in between Isreali's and Palestinians. I could not think of a worse policy. Did these same people claim that they were always against sending troops into these situations like in Beirut, Lebananon in the early 80's? Its like they want to run the War on Terrorism like the LBJ did the Vietnam War.

[gridlock]

I would argue that Bush's programme has been an unqualified success. The path we were on before was headed to disaster. The path we are on now, though noisy and messy, is at least based in reality. This situation will eventually thrash itself out. And when it does, the resulting peace will be based on military and cultural reality, not on wishful thinking about Pallies and Israelis standing in the desert singing Kum-ba-ya.