Now is time for the Bush Administration to respond by replacing its divisive policies in the Middle East with a strategy of "combine and conquer"

Barbara Slavin in the National Interest, here. "...The president’s latest Middle East initiative is threatening to collapse under its own weight only months after it debuted with great fanfare at Annapolis..."

HOWEVER, President Bush's frantic phone calls to the Jordanians (and others) ... and M14's plea to the Arabs to "restrain & deter" the Syrians, ... appear to be part of the same old "Divide & rule" strategy!