Rice's World Tour

I am very pleased that Secretary Rice has taken it on herself to try to start peaceful negotiations between Israel and Palestine (how many times has the U.S. tried that already?).

But seriously - the fact is that although Palestine is sending fresh batches of suicide bombers into Israel, it pales in comparison to the brutal bombings sponsored by Israel in attempts to "clean out terrorists." And although I do not have official confirmation, word around the campfire is that Rice is making the situation even more confusing for the leaders of the respective lands by beating around the Bush. We are talking about decades of strife that we are expecting these two countries to just "get over." The only successful Arab-Israeli discussions were the 1978 Camp David Accords, and how did we manage that? We pay Egypt bribes every year, but the Accords could not have been that popular because Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot almost two years later.

But I guess Bush did what he had to do to get her out of the White House.