All Talk, But Not With The Right Parties.

Watching the Bush administration deal with the current crisis in the Middle East, I have been wondering how one solves a problem like this without talking to both sides. When I have been involved in VORP, an alternative approach to our criminal justice system, one of the keys is to talk to both the victim and the offender. Then to bring them together.

This article confirms that others share my concern and that, like in most things with our current leaders, PR is more important than effective action.

Some, even within the White House, have started referring to the "Condi Rice show" -- suggesting that the Secretary of State spends too much time on television talking to a domestic audience and not enough in international negotiations.