Barack Obama is the most Jewish president we've ever had (except for Rutherford B. Hayes). No president, not even Bill Clinton, has traveled so widely in Jewish circles, been taught by so many Jewish law professors, and had so many Jewish mentors, colleagues, and friends, and advisers as Barack Obama.
Jeffrey GoldbergThere's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.
Jeffrey GoldbergPretty much the worst reason to bomb someone is to prove that you're willing to bomb someone.
Jeffrey GoldbergThere's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.
Jeffrey Goldberg