The Smarter Darren Bernard

As Garance Franke-Ruta says over at TAPPED, the Bushies aren't content with husbanding one civil war in Eye-Rack. Now the Crusader Zionists insists on inserting itself in a possible civil war between Fatah and Hamas, namely in the camp of Mahmoud Abbas:

The Chronicle has obtained a training manual distributed to officers of the Al-Haras Al-Rayassi, Abbas' Presidential Guard, during a two-week course held in Jericho earlier this year at which the chief instructor introduced himself as a U.S. Secret Service officer who served during the Reagan administration. The manual, titled "Advanced Protective Operations Seminar," is emblazoned with the logo of the Counterterrorism Training Group, which includes the U.S. government seal.

Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, the U.S. security coordinator to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, told the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth after news of the training sessions leaked out that since Iran is helping arm and fund Hamas political and military activities, the United States wants to prevent "moderate forces" in the Palestinian territories from being eliminated.

"We are involved in building up the Presidential Guard, instructing it, assisting it to build itself up and giving them ideas. We are not training the forces to confront Hamas," Dayton told Yedioth. "Hamas is receiving money and arms from Iran and possibly Syria, and we must make sure that the moderate forces will not be erased," Dayton said....

Great. When Yasser Arafat died and removed an "obstacle to peace", the United States did nothing to support the new government headed by Abbas outside paying it lip service. Sharon decided to unilaterally pull out of Gaza without coordinating with the PA, making it look weak and allowing outside terror groups like Hamas to claim credit for the withdrawal. That later led to the election that put Haniyeh and Hamas into power. And now this country suddenly decides to support Fatah, but only as a proxy in a civil war? Good lord.