How has the internet liberated journalists? Tom Ricks works at the Washington Post. He also has perches at Foreign Policy and some thinktank. Here a genius post at Foreign Policy about the Post op-ed page titled, Stop the Insanity! In its entirety (Ricks understands the attention span of the internet).
Hardly a day goes by without the op-ed page of the Washington
Post carrying an article by a veteran of the Bush Administration holding
forth on foreign policy. Michael
Gerson, a former Bush speechwriter and policy advisor, even has a regular
columnist gig. And today Yosemite
Sam [evidently a snarky reference to John Bolton's mustache] advocates bombing Iran. It's as if in 1969, the people who brought us
to disaster in Vietnam were constantly writing on how to build on their
success-and expand the war to Thailand, Malaysia, and Burma.
P.S. Note that Foreign Policy blog is part of the Slate Group, which is part of the Washington Post. Sophisticated media.
