{"id":2356,"date":"2009-11-08T20:05:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T03:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2012-07-08T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:50:09","slug":"1000-monkeys-typewriters-and-1-nyt-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/1000-monkeys-typewriters-and-1-nyt-column\/","title":{"rendered":"1,000 Monkeys, Typewriters And 1 NYT Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>W<\/b>e ask our loyal friends to bear with us.  This is not an easy post to write.  In fact, it&#8217;s down right near preposterous.  But here goes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/08\/opinion\/08friedman.html?hp\">We agree with Tom Friedman. It&#8217;s time to walk away from Israel, the Palestinians and the Arabs. <\/a>  Or at least plan for it.   The Israeli Right would welcome American disengagement as the fruits of their diplomatic obstruction and geographic expansionism.  We&#8217;re under no illusions that Bibi et al. want Obama to leave them alone to continue their failed <i>MachtPolitik<\/i>.  If only Obama and Clinton could show the political spine to stand down Israel, withstand domestic pressure before 2010 and then devote the resources necessary to give Palestinian statehood a viable shot.  Without it, when push comes to shove it&#8217;s better to walk away from the pretense of engagement.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/1000-monkeys-typewriters-and-1-nyt-column\/1000monkeys\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"465\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1000monkeys.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Keller will see you now.\" title=\"Mr Keller will see you now.\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1000monkeys.jpg 465w, http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/1000monkeys-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>T<\/b>he Stiftung finds no joy noting Friedman essentially argues Obama go hands off ala the Warlord.  Haven&#8217;t Kagan et al. always fantasized about this outcome?   But Friedman is correct (even if inadvertantly) that a feckless engagement is worse than a reassessment.   Friedman essentially asks &#8216;What would Baker do?&#8217;   We know Baker knew how to bring the hammer down.   Can this Administration?   <\/p>\n<p>OK. There, it&#8217;s out.  Whew.  We&#8217;ve been walking into the Bunker walls today feeling disoriented posting that we agreed with Friedman although perhaps for different reasons.  If the whole 1,000 monkeys and typewriters thing is true, those poor chimps.  Chained and typing beginning in 1997 to get this one column.  <\/p>\n<p>Simian serfs just know that your ghostwriting even one Friedman column is a gift to mankind.  We salute you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ask our loyal friends to bear with us. This is not an easy post to write. In fact, it&#8217;s down right near preposterous. But here goes. We agree with Tom Friedman. It&#8217;s time to walk away from Israel, the Palestinians and the Arabs. Or at least plan for it. The Israeli Right would welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-acolytes-in-media","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}