The eventual election of a terrorist group to run the Palestinian legislature presumably was not what Woodrow Wilson had in mind when he brought the U.S. into World War I, telling Congress it was an opportunity to establish "a universal dominion of right" based on democracy and self-determination for all peoples.
Yet. last month's exercise of Palestinian self-determination resulted not only in a triumph for the terror group Hamas, but also in an opportunity for Hamas to remind the world that its charter calls for destroying Israel, one of America's best friends in the world and still the sole Western-style democracy in the Middle East.
As reported by the Washington Times …