September 25, 2009

War Story

If you watch The News Hour on Friday nights, you know that David Brooks and Mark Shields usually appear to do a brief "this week in politics" segment. Brooks's contribution is often just a regurgitation of his Friday column at the NYT. This week's edition is here. In it, he advocates going "all-in" to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Before watching, you might want to read Glenn Greenwald's massive takedown of Brooks's history of warmongering in Iraq. You might wonder at Mr. Brooks's conceit as he advocates more war in Afghanistan after being so blindingly wrong about Iraq. "What about admission of your mistakes and reflection upon them," you might say to Mr. Brooks. But you'd be foolish to say that, for as we've seen before, war punditry means never having to say you're sorry.

Posted by Linkmeister at September 25, 2009 10:19 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Yup!! Those people seem to have learned nothing over the previous administrations long 8 years. And it doesn't sound as if they're going to acknowledge that they were wrong about any or all of that.

I'm still torn as to whether we should just ignore all that happened or start the investigations to hold them accountable. After all, you have to lance a boil and get all the gunk out before it will start to heal.

(sigh)

Posted by: Illanoy Gal at September 26, 2009 11:04 AM