One of the neat things about subscribing to The New Yorker is the email that arrives most every week with a preview of the coming issue's articles, with a link to the online edition in case you can't wait to read one of them. Thus it was that I hurried to investigate "David Remick on Obama and the Middle East." (Not available to non-subscribers.) I just naturally assumed that it dealt with the great issue of the day--Libya's murdering of its own people--and it does in fact contain a clarion call for action: "It is time for President Obama to speak clearly and firmly."
Alas, as I should have guessed, Mr. Remick is not calling for action against an enemy--an enemy of the U.S. and of democracy--but against a friend, and the only true democracy in the region, to wit: Israel. Wouldn't you know it? Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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