[jacktruth]

Bush can't take credit for this. This is Israel, Palestine. But, he can take credit for the US role in those relations, whatever that was. He has a middle east policy. Not a person on this board knows whether his middle east policy helped or hindered that situation. Democrats will say it hindered or had no affect. Republicans will say it helped. But we don't know.

I think it was a good policy to let them deal with it themselves. That is something that the Bush administration has done differently than previous administrations. He certainly deserves more credit than past Presidents got. He changed our policy and then results came. Nobody knows whether or not those two things correlate or how much they correlate.

But I do know that the middle east is less of a threat today than it was before this administration. Bush certainly deserves some credit for that.