Flat earthers meet in DC

Washington Institute for Near East Policy, offspring thinktank of AIPAC, says that it was "established to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East.” It just had a panel about Obama’s record on the Middle East. The verdict (reported by Ori Nir)? All three panelists said Obama was a failure, beginning with Mortimer Zuckerman, panjandrum of the Israel lobby, who said Obama "doesn’t know how to play the game." Verdict shared by Jackson Diehl,of the Washington Post–who said that Gaza was a big "win" for Israel– a massacre, the greatest pr disaster in the country’s history. And by Michael Mandelbaum, who supported the Iraq disaster, saying, "Most Iraqis want for their country more or less what Americans want…"