The most tragic part of that disastrous Oval Office blow-up.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Nobody has ever seen anything like it: a shouting match inside the Oval Office, as cameras rolled, with the American president berating a beleaguered war ally the way a Mafia don shakes down a debtor for kissing the ring with insufficient ardor. Then the scheduled discussion over lunch between the two men and their teams gets canceled, as does a more formal joint press conference afterward. A treaty, which had been prepared for the occasion, is taken away unsigned….