Review: Advising the Next President on Mideast Diplomacy

Thomas Mitchell, Ph.D.
The Much Too Promised Land by Aaron D. Miller, Bantam, 2008, 385 pp., $26.

Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East  Edited by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky, the US Institute of Peace, 2008, 190 pp., $16 (paperback).

The first ... lesson is that the US is indispensable to progress in the Middle East peace process.

Miller argues that successful Middle East diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict .... would have to employ the deviousness of Kissinger, the missionary focus and attention to detail of Carter, and the ruthlessness of Baker.