Bush Blames Arafat for Undercutting Peace Efforts: "Mr. Bush offered no clear path for how he would achieve that goal or even how he would revive the peace talks. He also did not mention Mr. Arafat's nominee for a new Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, who the administration has so far treated with reserve. Instead Mr. Bush simply repeated his demand that Palestinian terrorism must end.
'Mr. Arafat has failed in that effort, and hopefully at some point in time, a leadership of the Palestinian Authority will emerge which will then commit itself 100 percent to fighting off terror, and then we'll be able to consolidate the power necessary to fight off terror,' Mr. Bush said. 'And when that happens, the world will come together to provide the conditions for hope.'"

I get scared when he talks about the "world" coming together. He talked about the world taking action like this in Iraq before he attacked it with Britain. He seems to think that what he does is what the world does. Perhaps in his "world" all that matters is what he does?
- posted by geoff @ #