Too smart by half.

When we read of news like this, or consider the alleged poisoning of Yasser Arafat, you have to wonder: Do we really need allies that operate like this? When happens when the Golden Rule is applied to our own leaders?

When your child gets to be a teenager, and starts flexing his adult muscles, often that's the time to push him out of the nest. To spread his wings and learn to fly -- or flap as he may -- under his own powers.

This Biden building incident may turn out to be a blessing in disguise for both our countries. If there indeed is going to be another major world war, if we're choosing up sides in the region, it's good for Americans to understand where exactly they stand vis-a-vis our allegedly best friend in the area.

If you can't trust your friends, it's better to find out now before intertwining our futures and locking into a pattern that can only bring our own country down. There's no moral obligation for America to put Israel's interests now before our own.

We're better than that.

It's one thing to intervene in a Holocaust, it's another to continue enabling this strange idea that you can kill your way to peace, and pursue justice through immoral means. Who remembers that old Coven song?* Sing it with me now...

"Listen children to a story that was written long ago..."