Tom Friedman has a good piece about the peace process and Israel today, or a halfway digestible one anyway. It is influenced by the goodnatured Aaron David Miller. But Friedman persists in offering the lone-gunman theory of Iraq:
The rise of Iran as a threat to Israel today is directly related to Mr. Bush’s failure to succeed in Iraq
Mr. Bush’s failure to succeed. In other words, it was a great idea to invade and occupy a country that did not attack us. It is always Bush. But Friedman was an important proponent of the ideas that gave us this war, as were a great number of Washington intellectuals (yes most of them Israel-lovers–including Friedman, who wrote on Slate that it was a good thing to smash Saddam to answer the thinking behind suicide bombers in Tel Aviv pizza parlors). When will the neocons and fellow travelers come down off their grassy knoll and admit their responsibility?
