The Smartest Man in the Room, President Barack Obama, is not exaggerating when he says, "Like any politician at this level, I've got a healthy ego." But, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed him on his latest visit to the White House, a leader needs more, much more, to be an effective instrument of foreign policy.
Here are excerpts from an Investor's Business Daily editorial:
Netanyahu, keenly aware that his nation's survival is in the balance, stated that "a peace based on illusions will crash eventually on the rocks of Middle Eastern reality." He said that "while Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines, because these lines are indefensible."
That's because "before 1967, Israel was all of nine miles wide — half the width of the Washington Beltway. And these were not the boundaries of peace; they were the boundaries of repeated wars, because the attack on Israel was so attractive from them."
The spectacle harks back to Margaret Thatcher's public scolding over 30 years ago of another president sporting an oversized ego: Jimmy Carter....
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