Maybe this will sharpen the point made in this post. You’ve seen Robert Kagan and Mitt Romney wail and lament President Obama’s rather meager pressures on Israel to get the Netanyahu government to demonstrate its commitment to a negotiated two-state solution. They extrapolate from that case  and a misreading of last year’s missile defense restructuring [...]

A longer version of this Robert Kagan column appears across seven interminable pages in Mitt Romney’s book. There’s nothing wrong with that, in itself, but it’s worth inspecting the claim. Here’s Kagan, who naturally will spend fewer words making a more substantive point than will Romney: This administration pays lip-service to “multilateralism,” but it is [...]