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Each week, the members of the Watchers Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest for the week’s best post. And each week I inexplicably end up waiting till the subsequent Monday to post the nominations and the winners. Not this time: Sunday!

My own post dealt with how influential public diplomacy expert Marc Lynch advised the Obama administration to pick a fight with Israel, saw that strategy backfire as the Palestinians hardened their demands and fractured, and is now accusing Israel of “intransigence” in every other post he writes. He’s a little bit bitter and it’s getting kind of unseemly, though there’s probably room for sympathy – the foreign policy failed left’s recommendations have been exposed as naivete-soaked delusions, and that can’t be fun. Right Truth’s post on the ongoing Middle East-wide disasters triggered by State Department diplomacy and foreign policy pseudo-sophistication is to the point.

The Glittering Eye’s post on health care probes a question that comes up again and again for foreign policy hawks: putting aside that the left can be relied on to appease our enemies and endanger our allies – see Bookworm Room’s post – why is it that they’re also so consistently useless and ideological even on domestic affairs? The word “meltdown” makes a couple of appearances.

But at least the GOP seems to have approximated something like a spine on health care. The rest of their stunts have put them at war with their own base, a situation that Rhymes With Right unpacks nicely. Not that the conservative grassroots are without their own potential problems, something The Provocateur lays out.

All of which is really a shame, because – per the Colossus Of Rhodey – the left is becoming unhinged to the point of open racism again. Usually they save that for election season. Ditto for the fangs they’re showing about double-loyalty Jews – complete with witch hunters who totally fail to implicate Israel but imply the opposite. See Joshuapundit on “>that last bit. Apparently they’re not over their campaign-time addiction to scapegoating. It must feel really good.

References and related coverage after the jump…