Bush and Blair

I don't think their words today helped the situation. For Bush to make Middle East peace into something he's going to order up like a plate of hotcakes and then put its success only on the Palestinian people is the height of hubris.

But it also came as downright disrespectful on the day Arafat was laid to rest. I don't much care what leaders in this country thought of Arafat; his people were generally very loyal to him. It's just one more way that we try to rub Arab noses in untidy whities.