Being a recounting of my journalistic ventures in Iraq
One of the things writing the U.S. media roundup on IraqSlogger allows me to do is get a high dudgeon up over the crap that passes for analysis on op-ed pages … or sloppy writing in the middle of reporting. (Michael Gordon of the New York Times has been raked over the coals for his …
My latest for IraqSlogger is up, and there’s a howler of an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. As I wrote for the Slogger: Melik Kaylan writes a fawning piece on Ahmad Chalabi for the Wall Street Journal‘s op-ed page, calling him the “nearest thing Iraqis currently possess to a genuine walk-and-talk democratic politician.” For …
Thank goodness. After 16 weeks, BBC journalist Alan Johnston has gone free. I can now remove that logo to the right. Thanks to negotiations between Hamas and his kidnappers, Johnston wasn’t killed in a cowboy raid. Good to Hamas for that wise tack. While there are many concerns about Hamas’ takeover of Gaza, there is …
I’m coming a bit late to this because of server problems, but it’s something that’s been bugging me about the whole Reid-Pace “competence” imbroglio. The question nagging at me is not who called whom incompetent or whether Reid was wrong or right to do so. I mean, Pace had just been fired, so Reid’s not …
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