Jen, about your Marty Peretz quote:

I gave the benefit of the doubt to the administration’s motives in sending a delegation to the preparatory sessions in Geneva where some interventions proved just how weak we are and where also on other matters on which we should have intervened we skulked into the woodwork. And was I wrong! If this is what engagement with our adversaries means, our friends should be very wary.

This seems like a good time to recall something Andrew Sullivan wrote a year ago in a blog post entitled “Obama And The Jews”:

If Marty ain’t worried, ain’t nobody need to worry.

In light of developments, mightn’t somebody be forgiven a little worry?

UPDATE: Soccer Dad  just alerted me to the fact that Peretz is worrying even more: “$900 Million From U.S. To Gaza: Is The Administration Nuts?”