Jed Babbin’s stunning “Into Hamastan”on Real Clear Politics. A paragraph of heartbreaking realism about the kidnapped Gilad Shalit is something I wish I could have written: “Like every soldier, Shalit was trained to understand that hostages are expendable but – in the rough confidence of youth – understood that idea only in terms of people he would someday try to rescue. By now the unimaginable has occurred. Shalit’s mind must be focused on the soldiers’ dilemma his comrades face. They will do anything to rescue him, but nothing to trade for him.”