It is one of the signs of our times when people in the media ask how some of our home-grown terrorists could "turn against their own country." This was never their country-- and giving them citizenship papers will never make them or anybody else a real citizen, in the sense of someone loyal to this country.
Even experienced politicians would have a hard time coming up with a more grossly misleading phrase than "the Middle East peace process."
We cannot recapture the past, but sometimes it can recapture us-- if we are not careful.
Just as the American left has adopted blacks as mascots, so the international left has adopted Palestinians as mascots. In both cases, the actual well-being of the mascots is not the point.
Mascots exist to be symbols for others. In all the years when the Arab states controlled the area that Israel took over after the 1967 war, nobody cared what happened to the Palestinians, much less offered them a homeland.
Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as President or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a Vice President.
We have now reached the truly dangerous point where we cannot even be warned about the lethal, fanatical and suicidal hatred of our Islamic extremist enemies in our midst, because to do so would be politically incorrect here and, in some European countries, would be a violation of laws against inciting hostility to groups.