“ Sooner or later we’ll return to some measure of sanity in our politics.” Well, don’t hold your breath, President Clinton. Clinton was the first-ever speaker at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Martin Indyk Lecture Series yesterday. He spoke glowingly of the late Ambassador Indyk who served as his Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs and Middle East point person. Despite Clinton’s signature betrayal of the American people, this was a President who knew what he was doing, managed from the middle, and achieved numerous, authentic foreign policy and economic successes. Yes, this was at a time when there was still a small measure of sanity in our politics. The 1990s Oslo Accords promising peace, mutual recognition, and land exchanges between Israel and Palestine was one of those successes. Of course, reactionary forces on both sides of that equation have long since scuttled Oslo’s promise and the prospects of peace. Too bad, since Oslo remains the only tangible pat...
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