Flying Pink Unicorns

Well, today in Annapolis, we begin the sideshow of Israeli-P "talks." This is of course silly. Neither side has budged from its previous positions if reporting is to be believed, even in private. Both leaders are uniquely weak. But Condi and W feel a need to do the statesman/stateswoman thing, so off everyone goes to Maryland to sit in various rooms to no good end. Everyone calls the Israeli-P (readers will learn, I use P to mean Palestinian, to save space) dispute "complex." Actually, its analytically reasonably simple. Land/settlements, refugees. These aren't "complex" issues, like how to best structure the US health care system, or developing a replacement to the space shuttle. They are politically difficult and explosive, and not super-simple, but not really complex in the end.