Instead of the illusive two state solution, long coveted by the international community, the Middle East now has what appears to be a two state dissolution. The pipe-dream of a Palestinian State living side by side at peace with Israel is, as it always has been, nothing more than a grand illusion. Still, this hasn't kept our world's hallucinating leaders from seeing it as a possibility, despite all of the incontrovertible evidence to the contrary. Today, much to our world leaders' chagrin, we're finally seeing the creation of two states in Palestine. Unfortunately, it's not a peaceful Palestinian State along side of Israel, but two civil warring terrorist states within the Palestinian Territories.

Yesterday, President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met at the White House and announced their intention to prop up the Fatah terrorist government of Mahmoud Abbas, the successor of Yasser Arafat, who was the bloodiest terrorist in the history of the world. According to Bush and Olmert, aiding our sworn enemies on the West Bank (Fatah and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade) in their struggle against our sworn enemies in Gaza (Hamas) is the right thing to do.

I can certainly understand Bush’s reasoning behind this seemingly insane policy of aiding and abetting our sworn enemies, especially when they’re engaged in conflicts with other sworn enemies of our’s who we deem to be even worse than them. After all, we’ve had such success with this ingenious foreign policy in the past. Just stop to consider a few of our past pals who we’ve rescued and enabled to go on to bigger and better things: Joseph Stalin in Russia, Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, and Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

The old adage: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” makes a loathsome, not to mention loony, foundation for foreign policy. If two of our sworn foes are fighting, the perceived less threatening of the two is not somehow transformed into a friend. Thus, the really smart thing for us to do when our enemies are fighting each other is nothing. Let them have at it! Afterward, we can go in an easily vanquish the vulnerable victor, who’s been horribly weakened by war.  We all know it, but no one is willing to say it: If we’d leave the radical Islamists alone they would kill each other. But we keep intervening in their world to help them out and prop them up. Consequently, they never go away, but keep growing stronger and stronger with a little help from their friends; namely, us and our allies.

Don Walton