The movie dribbles on for an eternity, sometimes intelligently and companionably, sometimes vacuously.

NEWYORKER: Eat Pray Love

Rather than provide rational arguments to defend their view that Hamas's takeover of Gaza is an opportunity for peace, proponents of peace fantasies as strategic wisdom explain vacuously that peace is the best alternative to jihad.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Grounded in fantasy

Rather than address these issues, or the fact that the US has refused Indian extradition requests for Headley, Obama vacuously told students that it is the job of young people from all religions to reject extremism and violence.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Addressing Israel's homegrown enemies