Over at National Review Online, Andy McCarthy has written an angry, punishing critique of the Bush administration, calling Annapolis—quite correctly, I think—the death knell of the Bush Doctrine:

Buried in Annapolis will be the last shards of the Bush Doctrine, the blunt marker the President once put down to signal a do-or-die choice for jihadist nations. Are you with us, he asked, or with the terrorists?

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Simply stated, the [Annapolis] farce is crushing for Bush supporters. This administration is hellbent on granting statehood to savages who worship “martyrdom,” who have bombed their way to the table, and whose non-negotiable demand—a “right of return” to Israel for millions of migrant Palestinians—would sound the death-knell for a civilized democracy that is our only true friend in the region. So desperate is the administration to show “progress” and “engagement” that it is placing its chips on an unreconstructed terrorist organization, Fatah, that fails the most basic tests of sovereignty—able neither to control its own territory nor to acknowledge the right of a neighboring sovereign to exist. And in executing the strategy, the administration is betraying the principle that state sponsors of terror like Syria must be eradicated or reformed, but never embraced—the only roadmap to real peace.

I wonder what we’d be saying if [the] President behind this farce were named Clinton.

Read the whole thing.