Right. That'll work. But I guess they have to try...
The Bush administration has been drafting guidelines to avoid the need to dismantle Islamic insurgency groups in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. U.S. officials said the effort is meant to bolster the Palestinian Authority and its new prime minister Mahmoud Abbas while advancing an international plan to establish an interim Palestinian state by the end of 2003. The plan, termed the road map, has called for the dismantling of Palestinian groups deemed as terrorists. "It is a clearly a change in the administration's approach and is designed to move the roadmap," a U.S. official said. "The president has been briefed, but has not formally approved this as policy." U.S. officials said the State Department and National Security Council have discussed ideas that would allow Islamic insurgency movements to continue operating. They said the guidelines being drafted would distinguish between an insurgency group's political and military wings.
| All they have to do is dismantle their military wings. But they won't do that. Without Armed Struggle™, they're nothing. |
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