The kerfuffle about General McChrystal has hit the editorial and op-ed pages of The New York Times. The paper’s editorial staff, Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman, and Max Boot (Max Boot?!?) all hold forth today, June 23, 2010.
All have interesting points, and they vary.
It’s a little amusing to note that there is a little blurb at the end of Boot’s commentary. It reads: “Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is writing a history of guerrilla warfare and terrorism.”
Mr. Boot once wrote regularly for the Los Angeles Times. He’s a conservative. To learn that he’s writing “a history,” and remembering recent revisionist practices of certain members of the right wing (not Mr. Boot himself), causes one immediately to think, “Well, I hope he’s not re-writing the history.” You know, in case “revisionism” is catching.
Trust, but verify.
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