(Washington Times) Wesley Pruden - Sooner or later, the White House will have to get serious about who's doing what to whom, and face up to doing what it will take to stop it, and etiquette and friendships with rich and royal despots be damned. The famous "road map" is the most embarrassing bit of White House nonsense since Jerry Ford issued his famous WIN buttons to "Whip Inflation Now!" Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian "prime minister," is no doubt somewhat more preferable (and considerably less loathsome) than Yasser Arafat, but only in the way that a migraine headache is not as bad as a mortal head wound. Mr. Abbas, like his friends in Washington, imagines that he can disarm the killers with tea and sympathy, and the latest outrage occurred even as Mr. Abbas was entertaining the chiefs of Islamic Jihad at a tea party to "discuss" the cease-fire. What is not a matter merely for speculation is that George W. Bush must get tough with "our Saudi friends." This will require, first of all, discarding the notion that the Saudis can be trusted as friends. Rich or not, royal or not, they are part and parcel of the Islamist terror machine, supplying money, sanctuary, and encouragement to evil men who are determined to kill as many of us as necessary to destroy the civilization of the West. September 11 was prologue.
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