let the mea culpaing begin.
- bill 9-06-2011 5:19 pm

Riddled w caveats including blaming being hawkish on being a new father. No mention of nyts j miller on his list of fellow lib hawks.
- bill 9-06-2011 10:32 pm


shes no lib hawk. shes a straight up neocon. of course, the neocons were born out of the lib anti-communists of the 50s and 60s so its just a sliding scale. once you stop feeling guilty about interventionism then youre already there.
- dave 9-06-2011 10:53 pm


I'm thinking, where's he going with this ... then ...

In several columns I laid out justifications for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. There were caveats — most significantly, that there was no reason to rush, that we should hold off to see whether Iraq’s behavior could be sufficiently contained by sanctions and inspections. Like many liberal hawks, I was ambivalent; Pollack said he was 55 to 45 for war, which feels about right.
Fuck everything about you.


- mark 9-07-2011 5:31 am


In several columns I laid out justifications for installing an abattoir in the lobby of my condominium tower . There were caveats — most significantly, that there was no reason to rush, that we should hold off to see whether lobby behavior could be sufficiently contained by sanctions and inspections. Like many liberal hawks, I was ambivalent; Pollack said he was 55 to 45 for installing an abattoir in the lobby, which feels about right.

- mark 9-07-2011 7:40 am


It is infuriating. Not mentioning Judith Miller's inaccurate reporting (who he defended to the bitter end, as I recall), on the one hand, or all the people who got it right who were sidelined by the Times (then and now), on the other, is so dishonest. It's as if the only thought processes that mattered were liberal hawk insiders and their slippery justifications to themselves. A trip inside the mind of an elite dumbass.
- tom moody 9-07-2011 8:27 am


Thanks for the review. I got to that paragraph and stopped.

Knight-Ridder's Washington bureau provided proof that the people who got it wrong were lazy idiots. Keller still is.

- mark 9-07-2011 7:50 pm





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