Many of us who live in large cities, or in smaller left wing enclaves like Boulder. Colorado or Missoula, Montana, are surrounded by people for whom there is no question that George Bush is an incompetent bumbler, a religious zealot incapable of meeting the demands of complex diplomacy. In today's New York Sun, Kenneth Bialkin, a man with considerable standing in the Jewish communities of New York and the nation, discusses his response to the knee—jerks of so many of his associates. It may provide at least solace for those of us in the same position.

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