No, the word for Peretz is schmuck.

The Middle East will continue down the same road it has been on for years, with more ugly border incidents between various terror factions (Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, etc.) and Israel. This grinding conflict has been going on too long for a group of effeminate lightweights that now occupy the Executive Branch of the US Government to effect real change.
Iran is frankly too incompetent to wage a real war and do what their retarded dwarf president of that beknighted country wants it to do. That country is not the Third Reich revisited. With oil prices dropping and their own oil fields output declining, they are headed for an economic Waterloo.
Marty Peretz, Jonathan Chait and the rest of the drooling adolescents at TNR got what they wanted, and I hope they are happy, which may not actually be possible for “liberal progressives”. They are in perpetual angst about the status of “mankind”, and as Wretchard has asked, don’t they ever get tired and want to put down the mask once in a while?