Friday, November 30, 2007

No, Bush is Brilliant! By Raymond Kraft

Today, I received an article from a friend about the Middle East Peace Conference proceeding at Annapolis, with its nebulous, if not dismal, prospects for actually achieving achieving a resolution of the Palestinian Israeli problem, asking me if I thought Bush was naive, or merely stupid.  I replied, substantially as follows.

No, Bush is brilliant!

I do not think Bush is either naive or stupid.  I do not think he thinks there's a snowball's chance in hell that the Israelis and the Palestinians will work out a real peace deal this year, or next, and maybe not in the next century.  But Bush is playing a deeper game than that.  I'll call it "clearing the decks."

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