[Mr. Silverback]

I'll be the first to admit that the king isn't the second coming of George Washington, but you'd have to be a complete dimwit to believe that Abdullah II is the crux of the problem facing the Arab-Muslim Middle East.

Oh, I certainly agree. The problem is they are dimwits. They are so anti-Bush they can't think straight. And really, the press is never more clueless than when they're talking about foreign policy. If we'd listened to them during the Cold War, everybody in Europe would be speaking Russian these days.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

James Reston, George Seldes, I.F. Stone, Tom Wicker-to a lesser degree-Robin Wright, etc., etc...

The list of reporters who are completely ignorant of the most elemental concepts of foreign policy could fill the Boston telephone directory.