Sunday, December 04, 2005

Victor Davis Hanson Nails It Again

In a recent column about Iraq titled A Moral War, Victor Davis Hanson lays into journalists. I think he is being polite:
How strange that journalists pontificate post facto about all the mistakes that they think have been made, nevertheless conceding that here we are on the verge of a third and final successful election. No mention, of course, is ever made about the current sorry state of journalistic ethics and incompetence (cf. Jayson Blair, Judy Miller, Michael Isikoff, Bob Woodward, Eason Jordan). A group of professionals, after all, who cannot even be professional in their own sphere, surely have no credibility in lecturing the U.S. military about what they think went wrong in Iraq.
Read the whole thing here.


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