George Will is a pretty darned good conservative journalist, given extra credit maybe because there are so many popular put-on hacks in the field. But he's not so bad as a many others. Backed into a corner he merely throws up his hands and wonders why we are evil, but at some point we all do--except for some liberal hacks who think one day we will all be much better people if we just keep mouthing the right platitudes. He's better than that, at least.

   I do think there is a trend wherein it's cool and free-thinking to criticize Israel. Because compare them to other countries, right?But compared to a lot of other countries it seems on balance that they are being specially singled out for this brand of "fairness." Some of my Jewish friends criticize the living crap out of Israel, but they've been there, recently, and know much more about it than I do.

I don't know that the good of this country could have been achieved without the bad that was part of the same damn deal. Do you?