The roadmap for Palestinian State, in conformity with Israel was drawn way back in 2002. Lot of dust must have accumulated on those unfulfilled drafts of deception. Didn't it buy time for Israel to recoup its military hardware and its hideous stranglehold? Today, Israel is viewed as a declining, demoralized and dysfunctional country. Its President is being investigated for sexual offences, its military hierarchy caving in to public pressure for its defeat at the hands of Hizbollah, its Prime Minister living on borrowed daylights. Even its American patrons are unhappy with the brazen use of tactical Bunker Buster bombs on civilian populations in its war with Lebanon. What was surmised as suspicious, the involvement of 19 trainee pilots to commandeer the commercial airliners and hit the elusive targets with the precision of Air force top guns is now becoming algebra of intense speculative insight. With the structural scientists weighing in with their theory of foundation busting explosions independent of aerial impact is now gaining grounds for exhaustive review of 9/11 episode in fresh light. Murder is out. These mind-boggling developments have pushed the strong Israel lobby against the wall. The cracks that appeared seem to rip apart the modicum of rock-solid faith of pro-Israel slant of American policies.

US public distrust of Administration's rationale for Iraqi invasion is now openly branded as manufactured and manipulated intelligence to sell war in Iraq. The bruising rejection of Bush - his approval rating touching a petty 27% - seems to compel him embark on another venture with prospects of rehabilitating his raucous ratings to give some semblance of decency and dignity to his place in the history books. Musharraf has been selected for the job purely on the basis that the Bush-Blair-Mush triumvirate are joined at the hip for their wicked war against terror (none other than Islamic terror that Bush pronounced in his State of the Union address). The strong bastions of Sunni States are being herded to coalesce into a group that would insulate Israel against confrontational stance of Iran and its salacious sectarian followers and at the same time underwrite its security. It envisions continued existence of Israel, side by side a scrappy State of Palestine in the captured Arab lands so that the pathetic plight of Palestinians is forever consigned to congenital Arab internecine acrimony. How can anyone lavish the virtues of vision or statesmanship to the autocratic ruler, who would bend or break constitution in his quest for his re-election through lame duck assemblies rather than seek fresh mandate from assemblies that result from transparent elections in 2008. One would say that's not politics it is poll-a-trick.