Forums: How do you rate the administration's performance?

When George W. Bush won the Presidency in a disputed election, most expected that his biggest task would be uniting a divided country and managing a split Senate. Less than a year later, his administration faces a crisis unprecedented in U.S. history.

This hour, we look inside the White House with the Weekly Standard's William Kristol. How is the President handling the disparate views of Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld? Where is Dick Cheney? Are domestic policies suffering by the focus on Afghanistan?

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Does the U.S. need to change its policies towards Israel and Palestine? Share your thoughts in the forums.

Read Shibley Telhami's Washington Post editorial on Palestine.

The Palestinian Conundrum Listen

Osama bin Laden has said that the United States will not experience peace until the people of Palestine have their own security. But bin Laden's mission is clearly not motivated by love for the Palestinians. So why does he link his attacks to their plight?

The reason is the strong emotional pull that the Palestinian issue has in the Arab world, according to Shibley Telhami. In a survey that Telhami commissioned, the majority of five Arab countries listed the Palestinian issue as the "single most important issue to them personally." Why does the Palestinian issue elicit such an emotional response among Arabs? And what can the U.S. do diffuse this difficult issue?

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