Lack of originality in the Mideast as well. He continues the failed policy of appeasing Arafat while day after day there are more suicide bombers. Can't this president grow a pair of balls and be consistant with his own "With us or Against us" policy he articulated after 9-11?
Offer to purchase Israeli land for the Palestinians (we already give $30 billion annually so this is not that crazy...) and get Syria and Jordan to guarentee the peace.