It's Time for a 'Harriet Miers' on the Palestinians

It is rare for a presidential nominee to be opposed within the governing party, but that is what happened when George Bush appointed Harriet Miers for Supreme Court. A blog-enabled wave of revulsion passed through the conservative movement so quickly that the administration's campaign of support did not even have time to get started.

That is what needs to happen in terms of the Hamas-Fatah unity government. The Palestinian Authority is now incontrovertably a state sponsor of terror, as Barry Rubin argues:

The Mecca agreement provides for a Palestinian coalition government dominated by Hamas which maintains its genocidal aim of wiping Israel, and most of its people, off the map. The PA will continue to tolerate, and even cheer, the daily firing of rockets at Israeli civilian targets and the launching of terrorist attacks. This makes the PA a state sponsor of terrorism. By undermining Western sanctions and rewarding Hamas intransigence, the Saudi deal makes any diplomatic progress on an Israeli-Palestinian solution even more remote.

The Bush Doctrine (no distinction between terrorists and those who harbor them) now stands as pure hypocrisy. Given that the main opposition to the president's policy exists in the conservative movement, it is time for the cris de coeur like this to coalesce into a revolt. Maybe then we could have the foreign policy equivalent of Samuel Alito.