America has always known that the Middle East’s problems are interconnected, but for years it got its priorities wrong, because it failed to see that if there was an Archimedean point to the Middle East problem, it was to be found in the Palestinian issue, not the “War on Terror,” Iraq, or the need for Arab democracy. It took Bush six years of wrongheaded policies to finally admit that “Iraq is not the only pivotal matter in the Middle East.”