Wrong, my friend. America is dealing with two-faced Arafat the terrorist and the barbarian terrorists supported by the Palestinians, namely Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah and others.
You cannot win a war using terrorism -- you can only discredit your cause.
Terrorism is the main obstacle preventing peace and it must go before the peace process can move forward.
"You cannot win a war using terrorism -- you can only discredit your cause." That is weenie talk. In war you use whatever methods result in victory, and the long term survival of America's security and economic interests. Whether it's horses, bullets, bribes, deceit, lasers, bombs, rockets, or whatever -- it does not matter as long as the objective is accomplished with dispatch.
We should not wimp out because of fear of what "discredit" may come from those who love to hate us anyway.