TEETERING EN POINTE
With no skilled hand on the tiller (which in any case has been frozen in position by “stay the course”), waterfalls loom ever closer.
The planet pays the price of the maladroit G. Walker crowd. With great power comes great responsibility, a dictum they wantonly ignore.
It is often said of the Mideast peace process that it resembles a shark: If it does not continue in motion, it will perish. The overlapping crises Rice is now trying to get under control have taken their current menacing form, in large part, because President Bush and advisers addicted to illusions of unilateralism have abdicated America’s role as an irreplaceable mediator in the Mideast.
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History cannot be scrolled backward, and there can be no certainty about what might have happened in the Mideast if Bush had not been seduced into passivity by a doctrine of refusing to negotiate with a select set of rogues, despots, and enemies. What is certain is the tally of disasters that have followed from Bush’s diplomatic inertia. Article
