Is it really President Bush’s fault that there is no peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians? The editors of the New York Times seem to think so:

We have long admired Mrs. Clinton for her determination and her judgment and believe she will bring both to her new office at a critical time. She already has international stature, knows world leaders and has served on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
As Mr. Obama said, she is “tough and smart and disciplined.” Certainly, her selection indicates a radical break with the disastrous way that Vice President Dick Cheney ran so much of foreign and national security policy out of the vice president’s office.
Another failing of the Bush administration was that neither the president nor his two secretaries of state were “closers” who could set a foreign-policy goal (Israeli-Palestinian peace, for instance) and then develop and execute a strategy to achieve it. We have more faith that the Obama-Clinton duo will do so.

We shall see . . .