I finally made it to the New America panel on the Middle East in St. Paul this morning, after two hours on a crosstown bus from Minneapolis These twin cities are not Siamese.
Since I came in late and the conversation was so rich, I'll hold my comments other than to say it's worth watching the whole discussion.
If you had subscribed to UN Dispatch's twitter feed, you would have known that you could watch it live. That's your cue to sign up...