Time to take sides. Let the Israelis do what they need to do and let's stop huggung and kissing. What's the difference between Hillary hugging the wife for some votes and Bush/Powell smiling at the husband? Or was it a last good-bye?
If Willie-Jeff did this, people here would be popping jugulars all over the place.
No, the difference is enormous. Bush has dealt with people who kill Americans head on and is killing them in return. Clinton pardones terrorists.
Israel has had 50 years to kill Arafat before Powell ever got there. They chose not to, it is their choice, not Bush's. Sharon can kill him tomorrow.
To compare negotiations with scumbags to taking them home for dinner and a movie serves no purpose.
I have asked myself many times why Bush has eaten this crow and I can only come up with one answer. Iraq. And if he ate that crow to further America's interests, then he is a better man than even I thought. Only time will tell.