Bush wins the Nobel Peace Prize?

I'm going to go out on a limb (not really) and say that Bush will turn out to be one of the greatest Presidents this country has ever had. He may well win a Nobel Peace Prize before his second term is over.

David Brooks, writing in the New York Times presents us with a sardonic review of recent events leading toward peace in the Middle East, most of which defy conventional wisdom. (When is conventional wisdom ever right anyway?)

......yet here we are in this hopeful moment. It almost makes you think that all those bemoaners and condemners don't know what they are talking about. Nothing they have said over the past three years accounts for what is happening now.

It almost makes you think that Bush understands the situation better than the lot of them. His judgments now look correct. Bush deduced that Sharon could grasp the demographic reality and lead Israel toward a two-state solution; that Arafat would never make peace, but was a retardant to peace; that Israel has a right to fight terrorism; and that Sharon would never feel safe enough to take risks unless the U.S. supported him when he fought back.

Bush concluded that peace would never come as long as Palestine was an undemocratic tyranny, and that the Palestinians needed to see their intifada would never bring triumph.

How ironic it is that the man who elitist "intellectuals" mock as "the chimp", the man who struggles verbalizing in public, may turn out to be the man who finally solved the Palestinian problem, brought democracy to Asia and the MidEast and changed the world forever.