No conspiracy theorizing. The simple fact of the matter is that the Bush Administration is exhausted. Seven years of guerilla politics by the Dems coming on top of having to fight a real war at the same time have drained the administration to the point where it has no new ideas and no energy to develop any. All it can do is push on with the Iraq Campaign, as the key campaign in the war against the jihadist terrorists.
This exhaustion has allowed the conventional wisdom of the foreign policy elites to rise to the surface. As Bernard Woolley put it in an episode of “Yes, Prime Minister,” it’s not just the cream that rises to the top. So the jejune ideas of the elite about appeasing the Arabs have gained sway. Rice seems surprisingly amenable to these silly ideas.
We should give up on a Palestinian Arab state. The Palis don’t want one, they only want to kill Jews and don’t care what or who tyrannizes them, so long as their bloodlust is slaked. They are plainly unfit for democracy. If they were endowed by their Creator with rights to liberty and the pursuit of happiness they petulently tossed them away, seeking instead a right to murder.
