Foolish, but Not Unworthy

Michael Kinsley argues that Jimmy Carter's comparison of Israel to South African apartheid is "a foolish and unfair comparison, unworthy of the man...." Kinsley is half right: the comparison is foolish and unfair; however, it is very much what we have come to expect from Carter over the last decade or more.

I could quibble with some other statements in Kinsley's piece, but it is overall quite good. Read it here.