the neocons were, and remain, simply hopelessly adrift in their own conflicted positions.
But it was Bush himself who put it most bluntly: "The United States cannot impose our vision," he said on the first day of the non-summit. And it was therefore Bush himself who, true to form, put it most incorrectly.
A two-state solution has always been possible, if only the United States would do what it refuses to do: impose.
Someday -- and this is as certain as today's continued volatility in Gaza -- Israel will either withdraw to, or be forced into, its 1967 borders. There is no other solution that promises a lasting peace. But it is likely a peace that will come only from an imposer: that being the United States.
We have always had the military- and economic-aid leverage needed to make it happen, not to mention the troops required within an international peacekeeping force, if only those troops weren't scattered throughout the Middle East hither and yon.
What the United States has always lacked, however, was the political will to make it happen. And Mr. Bush, for all his Superman blustering about global reordering, has lacked that will in even greater quantities than his predecessors.
