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...news from Iraq this week wasn't bad enough for the Bush Administration, by Friday the President's Middle East peace "roadmap" appeared to be on the verge of collapse. Hamas and Islamic Jihad stated the obvious the previous day in announcing that their truce with Israel is dead, and with it may go the government of Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian prime minister has been reduced to an impotent spectator by the resumption of hostilities - a terror attack on a bus in Jerusalem that killed 20 Israelis, followed by the assassination of a senior Hamas leader, with both sides vowing...
...correct to label the latest upsurge as the end of the Bush Administration's "roadmap," but only because implementation of the "roadmap" hadn't really begun - most of the reciprocal gestures of recent weeks were not scripted by the "roadmap," but were made to calm the situation and create conditions for its implementation. Most important among these steps was the "hudna" truce brokered among Palestinian organizations by Abbas, which made last month the most tranquil since the beginning of the armed intifada in September 2000. The "roadmap" requires, as Israel insisted, that Abbas disarm and dismantle the militant groups...
...more like Tony Blair. Bush would also be pointing to a democratic Afghanistan emerging from the ashes of Taliban misrule, and the first rays of Iraqi freedom beaming into the dark corners of Arab autocracy and extremism, illuminating the steady progress of the Israelis and Palestinians along his "roadmap" to peace. And all of this would serve as a chilling deterrent to the nastier ambitions of his other designated "evildoers," North Korea and Iran. Not only that, these epic gains would have been achieved on the basis of minimal investment of American lives and treasure - the war in Afghanistan...
...This week's bus bomb carnage in Jerusalem highlighted how little has changed in the Israeli-Palestinian equation despite the roadmap...
...ocean of mistrust between the U.S. and North Korea, China, Russia and South Korea are pressing for an immediate temporary freeze on the nuke program in exchange for a short-term security guarantee, while negotiations then continue over a "simultaneous and phased" program of dismantling, inspections and concessions - a "roadmap" to North Korean disarmament in exchange for recognition...