PositiveThe BafflerA deeply reported account of White House and State Department decision-making ... Where the book falls slightly short is in its reluctance to explicitly prescribe legal or political accountability ... Nevertheless, Crossing the Red Line offers a vital, sobering diagnostic of how American power operates behind closed doors ... Ahmed is all about showing and not telling. But what he shows to us throughout this book is that liberal hand-wringing, equivocation, and performative self-recrimination in practice functioned as a filibuster so Israel could do their dirty work.
