Sunday, July 15, 2007

Why?

Just a quick question.

I read the reviews of the pundits appearances on all the Sunday news shows. What strikes me is, why do all the same old faces who've been completely wrong show up week after week after week (i.e. Bill Kristol)? From a Kristol column before the war:

We are tempted to comment, in these last days before the war, on the U.N., and the French, and the Democrats. But the war itself will clarify who was right and who was wrong about weapons of mass destruction. It will reveal the aspirations of the people of Iraq, and expose the truth about Saddam's regime. It will produce whatever effects it will produce on neighboring countries and on the broader war on terror. We would note now that even the threat of war against Saddam seems to be encouraging stirrings toward political reform in Iran and Saudi Arabia, and a measure of cooperation in the war against al Qaeda from other governments in the region. It turns out it really is better to be respected and feared than to be thought to share, with exquisite sensitivity, other people's pain. History and reality are about to weigh in, and we are inclined simply to let them render their verdicts.
Is there anything there that's correct?

And yet, the SOB is on one show or the other week after week after week ......

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