THOMAS FRIEDMAN wrote a very American column on the eve of July
4th, though the subject was Israel and Egypt. The election of
the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi as president of Egypt, he
wrote, "could actually be the beginning of a real peace between
the Israeli and the Egyptian peoples, instead of what we’ve had:
a cold, formal peace between Israel and a single Egyptian
pharaoh. But, for that to be the case, both sides will have to
change some deeply ingrained behaviors, and fast." This is a
fine American idea, the proposition that bitter, longstanding
national feuds could be resolved if the participants would
simply change their deeply ingrained behaviours, much as we
could all be trim if we simply started running five miles every
morning, and could all be rich if we simply adopted the seven
habits of highly successful people.  But it's hard enough for
individuals to change their deeply ingrained behaviours. As a
rule of thumb, groups of people as large as nations are never
capable of changing deeply in