Trash pile of history

Atrios is certainly right, there is something deeply wrong with our elite political and journalistic institutions. But what I find deeply amusing/horrifying is the utter lack of depth of analysis. I know it's too much to ask for Newsweek editors to consider that a "Middle East envoy" have some credibility in countries other than Israel, but the fact of the matter is, Bush may be popular in Israel because he's perceived by Israelis (and Arabs) as not thinking much of Arabs and not asking much of Israel.

Levey, author of the memoir Shut Up, I'm Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government, is writing his second book, How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less Without Leaving Your Apartment.

Ahem.