In a sense, I agree that this is all a response to the power of Hamas. But I also know that the Hamas/Iranian response may be more than the Annapolis participants expect, in much the same way the Iraq terrorism was more than the US expected. Ever since Hamas took over Gaza, the US has been doing everything to keep Hamas from taking the West Bank. I don’t think this meeting will stop what I consider to be that eventuality.
It’s also important to keep in mind the roots of this entire worldwide conflict as exemplified by Saudi Arabia–who let 1500 terrorist free because they promised not to attack Saudi Arabia. Well they’re going to attack something somewhere–and that is what this war is about. There is nothing at Annapolis that even begins to address what is essentially the globalization of a Saudi civil war.
