William Murchison: U.S. can't seek neutrality in Middle East conflict 03/27/2002 By WILLIAM MURCHISON We have to back off from this one so as to achieve the wider view. Among Americans, courtesy of a robust and unshackled media, noses are pressed against all of the Middle East minutiae – special envoys, negotiating sessions, cease-fires, pullbacks and so forth. Those aren't the questions most in need of addressing by Americans, for all the value that Middle Easterners and American diplomats may ascribe to them. The question needing reflection over here is: Whom would you want living next door – industrious, generally...
