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Marc Ambinder and Jeffrey Goldberg wonder aloud (ablog?):
Jeffrey Goldberg just wandered into my office and observed that, at first blush, President Barack Obama's reckoning of the last month's worth of Middle East history would be the exact same reckoning that George W. Bush would have had. In other words -- there's nothing that Obama said today that George W. Bush wouldn't also say. Is this true? Significant?False! Insignificant! Remember how Bush looked at the last month of Middle East history and reckoned he should appoint the wretchedly even-handed George Mitchell as his Middle East envoy over the objections of the AIPAC crowd, just like Obama did. God, it's like there hasn't even been an election.
-- Tim Fernholz
