David Ignatius writes his column today that politics should follow the Lebanon war. He makes the following point, "The way out of the Middle East mess is through political agreements, not unilateral moves or quixotic military campaigns. Iran and its proxies have been marking one bloody path to the future; America and its allies must work urgently to construct an alternative." I don't think that many believe that politics is better than war and that force isn't the right way to deal with groups, which use terrorism. Can politics work unless both parties believe that there can only be a political solution to a conflict? I wonder if the lesson of the last 10 years in the Middle East isn't that although force does not provide solution, it is a more popular course of action than diplomacy because with the latter one takes time and as experience shows, time is not the ally of those who make the tough decision to talk and to bargain with the devil. Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barack were the victims of that unfortunate principle.
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