A couple of times now, I’ve posted items imagining Jimmy Carter as being motivated by a spiritual debt to Anwar Sadat. Carter made Sadat stay at Camp David in 1978 when he wanted to leave; and Sadat gave his life for the accords he signed there. Now Carter is making up to his old friend. Read More
Brian Williams stood up for Jimmy Carter Monday by airing a wonderful scene from the Carter Center over the weekend. At some panel convened by Williams, Carter volunteered a scene at Camp David with Anwar Sadat that is apparently not in his book. Sadat was leaving. Carter changed into a suit and tie, knelt in Read More
The son of the blind sheik is now in custody. As we consider what to do with Ahmed Abdel Rahman–should he be the test case for the Bush administration’s military tribunals?–it would be politic of us to have him transferred to a holding center within the Muslim world. A prison in Turkey would seem about Read More
