Friday, April 23, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Shut up, the senior American official explained - 'Last week we wrote about both Ronald Lauder's open letter to President Obama and Elie Wiesel's open letter to an unnamed addressee. Both letters took issue with President Obama's diplomatic assault on Israel. The Obama administration got the letters but didn't appreciate the message. Ron Radosh summarizes the letters and takes note of the Obama administration's response, via Haaretz: "'All these advertisements are not a wise move,' one senior American official told Haaretz."...' [Obama doesn't take criticism well.]
