Hmmmmmmmm? Looks like a wonderful opportunity for a fresh start but folks is going to have to set aside the tempation to repeat "we don't negoitiate with terrorists in the name of making their particular constituencies happy and get on with it...
Bush says to North Korea: Get ride of yer nuclear program and then we'll talk but until then, we're not talking to you..
End result: Another nuclear power in the world..
Bush says to Iran: We ain't gonna talk with you at all..
End result: Another nuclear power coming up...
No Bush says that he ain't gonna talk to Hamas 'casue of their rhetoric???
Like Doctor Phil asks, "Is it working for you, pal?
Bush's comments today, while serving his base, was not a step in the right direction... It shows a complete and arrogant minunderstanding of the Palestian people...
(Ahhhhh, not to keep gettin' on Bush but he has blown yet another opportunity to say the right things... I mean, he ain't gotta get reelected so why not do and say something that might just be less confrontational... Especially at this time... Geeze...)
Yeah, this, as Woldgang has pointed out could be a very positive developement in the Middle East if folks will just chill a little and leave the posturing for when it might better serve the peace process...