Roger Simon offers some valuable insight on the former president:
His problem is that he was and is President Zelig, unable to experience conflict at a level which would allow him to stand by his opinions or even remember them. In some ways this kind of excessive empathy has value. When it comes to dealing with religious dictatorship, it is a moral and physical disaster, for the people of those countries most of all.
Read the whole thing. Roger also has a post on the “Good Bill.”