Karl Zinsmeister: Contemptible

BEIRUT — *Sigh* Another attack on the war corps by a guy who’s now the senior domes­tic pol­icy advi­sor for Pres­i­dent Bush. He’s also the guy who wrote this gem:

In another arti­cle, this one at the Amer­i­can Enter­prise Institute’s Web site on June 20, 2005, Zins­meis­ter, after another period as an embed, wrote, “What the estab­lish­ment media cov­er­ing Iraq have utterly failed to make clear today is this cen­tral real­ity: With the excep­tion of peri­odic flare-ups in iso­lated cor­ners, our strug­gle in Iraq as war­fare is over.…Contrary to the impres­sion given by most news­pa­per head­lines, the United States has won the day in Iraq.… the bat­tle of Iraq is no longer one of war fighting–but of polic­ing and pol­i­tics.“
The arti­cle is titled, “The War Is Over, and We Won.”

Yeah, ’cause polic­ing and pol­i­tics have proven to be so easy. But I just don’t have it in me today to take issues with this guy. Maybe I’m just “whiny”:http://web.mac.com/callbritton/iWeb/B2I%20Extras/Clips_files/A_Badr_Peace-1.pdf and “appallingly”:http://web.mac.com/callbritton/iWeb/B2I%20Extras/Clips_files/Hostile_Territory.pdf “soft”:http://web.mac.com/callbritton/iWeb/B2I%20Extras/Clips_files/Among_the_Believers.pdf.

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