By: David Anderson, J.D.Columnist Asymmetries and Moral Challenges A few decades ago I flew to Beirut because my mentor was dying there, to see the old chap off. As my professor he’d taught me Middle East politics at our university in Australia over a decade earlier and he’d encouraged me to apply for a scholarship to study graduate level Middle East politics at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. so I did. And I stayed in America, became American and now I’ve lived in N.Y.C. for three decades so my mentor changed my life utterly for the better. Which is why I went to care for him in his …