Searching For Reality

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com Remember, Ignatieff wasn't talking about deploying "international peacekeepers," the context Power now suggests for her words. He specifically proposed United States troops, followed by anyone else who was "willing." Their job wouldn't be to keep the peace, but to "enforce the solution." Far better today for Power to have some kind of blackout, than to tell the truth about the "dramatic exercise" she and Ignatieff envisioned. Ignatieff seems to be more candid. Last year, he wrote: "As a former denizen of Harvard I’ve had to learn that a sense of reality doesn’t always flourish in elite institutions." Unfortunately, Power remains a denizen of Harvard. So, while she may be able to disavow the "weird" reflexive anti-Israel sentiment that was all the rage in Cambridge in 2002, there's little reason to believe she's immune to the more current manifestations of the same impulse. In fact, her recent utterances make it pretty clear she is not.