A Reminder from Thomas Friedman...

Of what the Israel-Palestine conflict is ultimately about:

If you believe, as I do, that the only stable solution is a two-state one, with the Palestinians getting all of the West Bank, Gaza and Arab sectors of East Jerusalem, then you have to hope for the weakening of Hamas.

It would be refreshing, though, if he would spend a column or two explaining why he reached that conclusion and how such a two state solution might be implemented, rather than treating it as a throw-away line. I recognize that it's easier to write a column that preaches of the threat of Iran, Hamas rejectionism and radical Islam. But how many people aren't already in that choir?

McCain's Oh So Tough....

McCain pounds his chest, announcing,

I will be Hamas’s worst nightmare.

Well, great. He'll be the worst nightmare of an organization that poses absolutely no threat to the United States.

As a trade-off, though, voters would have to accept the fact that he's al-Qaeda's wet dream.

Which do you think is more important to U.S. strategic interests?