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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (40605)8/28/2002 3:47:04 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
The cable never surfaced, and the dates don't line up to support the conceit of a newspaper single-handedly launching (or stopping) a war.

Let me get this straight. So now Raines is innocent of Krauthammer's charge, because Cynthia Cotts of the Village Voice is running to the defense of the reputation of Willian Randolph Hearst?

rolfmao! politics sure makes strange bedfellows!

So the Times made a slight error. The real issue is judgment. Was it news when Scowcroft and Kissinger critiqued Bush's war strategy within days of each other? Of course it was. Sensing their own vulnerability, the warmongers decided to attack the messenger.

Well, there were also those previous 23 anti-war NYT stories that had the hawks somewhat primed for action, know what I mean? Like the stories that omitted the testimony of Iraqi dissedents wrt Saddam's imminent acquisition of nukes, and made a page one case out of a single missing Iraqi dissident at the Senate hearings.

Contrary to Krauthammer's suggestion that Kissinger had been "kidnapped," the gravelly voiced diplomat was all over the talk shows last week, declaring his support for a carefully crafted preemptive strike

Excuse me? Does she think that Krauthammer meant it literally? Kissinger is voicing well reasoned criticism, which the Times is portraying as widespread revolt against a totally unreasoning, cowboy policy. The depictions of both the policy and the 'revolt' are politically motivated exaggerations, to say the least.
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