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Analysis: Choose your friends, not foes
WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- You choose your friends, not your enemies. With enemies, one wages war, or hopefully, makes peace. Requesting that your enemies become your friends before making peace with them is illogical, at best. This takes the game quite a few strides ahead of "you are either with us, or against us." By this logic, you either play it our way, or you don't get to play at all. Let us, nevertheless, give praise to President George W. Bush for his latest Middle East initiative. However, the president, I am afraid, may have caused more harm than good. Demanding a change in Palestinian leadership as a pre-condition to advancing peace in the Middle East will only make it harder to achieve this peace. "The United States has failed this test of leadership in the Middle East," said James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute in Washington, D.C. "The president has set U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-Arab relations back with today's (Monday's) announcement," added Zogby. At a time when much of the world is condemning American arrogance and interference in other countries' domestic affairs, Bush's plan is certain to infuriate those who have long looked at the United States with suspicion, and questioned its motives and bias towards Israel.

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