Friedman–marbles–loses

I had a quick read of the NYT and the WaPo today. NYT news coverage on Iraq seems ways better conceptualized and better organized than WaPo’s. The quality of NYT reporting from inside Iraq is also pretty good. And then, at the back, there’s a world-class column by Maureen Dowd:

    Maybe after high-definition TV, they’ll invent high-dudgeon TV, a product so realistic you can just lunge through the screen and shake the Bush officials when they say something maddening about 9/11 or Iraq, or when they engage in some egregious bit of character assassination…
    Even though the assumptions the Bush administration used to go to war have now proved to be astonishingly arrogant, na

23 thoughts on “Friedman–marbles–loses”

  1. [Your editor writes: Lewis wants us all to go and read somethng that he describes as a…]
    World-class article from VDH…
    http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200404080815.asp
    [He then wants to use up precious gigs of my Comments board to reproduce much of this article here. I reckon if you want to read it, you can click on his link. So I used my editorial prerogative to snip all of it, except for the following gem:]
    “We did not ask for this war, but it came.”

  3. Lewis posted:
    “We did not ask for this war, but it came.”
    Wow! I had no idea Lewis was an Iraqi! All this time I thought he was an American.

  4. Sherry – Just shows how quick you are to pre-judge. I am neither American nor Iraqi, although I can think of no greater compliment than to be thought of as American. Helena, I never realised that three paragraphs would take up ‘gigs of memory’. Perhaps that wasn’t the real reason for the editing, eh?

  5. Thanks for exercising that editorial discretion, helena. If we find that one-sentence summary of Hansen’s article so compelling that we want to read the whole thing, there is always lewis’s link.

  6. Perfect editing, Helena. By removing the context, you obfuscate the fact that VDH was talking about the war on terrorism generally, not just the war on Iraq. No wonder you like Maureen ‘ellipsis’ Dowd.

  7. No, Hanson lumps Iraq in with al Qaeda as part of this “war we did not ask for”. Helena was on target.

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