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Bush has decided:
1. NOT to deal with arafat. Not to treat a terrorist as a viable head of state by inviting him to the white house, dealing with him, etc.
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So NOT dealing with the (regrettably) actual Head of State is doing something? no, it's doing nothing...
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2. Force the palestinians to look past the status quo by doing so.
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What? nothing has changed with the palestinians, they still remain in refugee camps, are unable to find work, and their future is no brighter today than it was before. The status quo remains unchanged with no change on the horizon...Again, it's doing nothing
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3. Removed thier 20K per suicide bomber patron.
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and this removal has stopped the suicide bombings from happening? NO, they continue...again, no change, and in effect doing nothing to stop the suicide bombings.
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4. Refusing the call by the dictators in the middle east to "deal with the palestinian problem first" thereby doing nothing which has been going on for decades.
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??? it seems (although not a very clear point) that you agree that he has been "doing nothing" in this case too...
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Of course israel is doing the real changing. The security fence will very quickly (unfortunately for the palestinians) force them to face reality.
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If you believe that the security fence solves anything you are very, very wrong. However, the issue is what Bush has done to "change the equation" and in that he isn't involved in the fence this point is also about...doing nothing. In fact, he has turned a blind eye to the fence and its incursion into areas that are Palestinian in make up. Here's an issue that he SHOULD have become more involved with perhaps to pressure the Israelis to NOT place the fence into palestinian districts.
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Greatness is as greatness does.
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As he clearly "does" nothing on this issue, it must be accurate then to say that there must not be any "greatness".