Gershom Gorenberg says that despite the appearance of wild generosity, Obama and Clinton could have Netanyahu in a very tight spot.
Actually, I’m beginning to suspect that they are up to something. But before I explain, two provisos. The first is that there’s a common psychological error among smart people: When they see other smart people doing what look like folly, they assume that a hidden, complex plan has got to be at work. Yet as historian Barbara Tuchman taught us, intelligent leaders do sometimes march, eyes wide-open, into folly, rendering moot all the complex rationalizations of how this dumb-looking act will lead to wonderful results.