Barak's back - who cares?

At Contentions, Noah Pollak waxes eloquent on the return of Ehud Barak to politics and to the Defense Ministry:After six years out of public life, Ehud Barak, the Israeli prime minister from 1999-2001, re-emerged as Minister of Defense a little over three months ago—and rarely has someone effected such a dramatic improvement, in such a short period of time, of Israel’s standing in the region.