Jonah Goldberg: Netanyahu’s framing of Middle East situation is spot-on | Jewish World Review

Jonah Goldberg: Netanyahu’s framing of Middle East situation is spot-on | Jewish World Review

Americans could learn a thing or two from Bibi Netanyahu.
The Israeli prime minister was in Washington this week to receive the American Enterprise Institute’s Irving Kristol Award. He made some controversial remarks — at least controversial at AEI, where I am a fellow, and where the freedom agenda is alive and well — about the need to be realistic about what’s going on in the Middle East. Sometimes, he said, brutal dictators are better than the real-world alternatives: even more brutal Islamist movements hell-bent (or, if you prefer, paradise-bent) to conquer the world.