That wasn't what the conservatives wanted him to do. That's what the liberals want him to do. The blunt truth is that there is not one damn thing we can do to get Arafat and his crew to make peace with Israel, and there is even less we can do now to get Israel to treat Arafat as though he were a real leader and not a thug.

If Arafat isn't buying the deal he got from Clinton and Barak, what deal would he buy?

If Bush dives into this tar baby, what do you think he should propose? More "talks?" They've been talking for an entire generation.

I'm afraid the only working solution now is what Israel is moving towards: eliminate the terrorists and the terrorist Palestinian leaders, and see if they can work with whoever comes after. Sort of what we did with Afghanistan.