A Separate Peace?

The Protracted Conflict

I can’t remember as spectacular, intense, and durable a media event in this country as the Sadat-Begin courtship dance, nor one so lavishly adumbrated. The comment (I continue limiting my reference to this country) has been overwhelmingly positive: admiring, hopeful, fascinated, approving, enthusiastic. Those among us who feel that political analysis without a generous dash of curmudgeonly sauce would be too bland to print have reserved their bile for Jimmy Carter. The President, so they scornfully inform us, was caught flatfooted by Sadat’s initiative and has had to junk his whole Mideast scenario.

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James Burnham

The Protracted Conflict

I can’t remember as spectacular, intense, and durable a media event in this country as the Sadat-Begin courtship dance, nor one so lavishly adumbrated. The comment (I continue limiting my reference to this country) has been overwhelmingly positive: admiring, hopeful, fascinated, approving, enthusiastic. Those among us who feel that political analysis without a generous dash of curmudgeonly sauce would be too bland to print have reserved their bile for Jimmy Carter. The President, so they scornfully inform us, was caught flatfooted by Sadat’s initiative and has had to junk his whole Mideast scenario.