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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (66350)1/16/2003 12:00:17 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Egads! No criticism of Pollack's writing style this time?

Seriously, I thought a little about your criticism of how Pollack wrote his Iraq book. I think a smart guy like Pollack can write as breezily and insubstantially as anyone here. I think that maybe, just maybe, Pollack made a considered decision to forego the rhetoric and the insubtantial breeze and to adopt a more or less shoemaker style of writing in which each factual point logically and inexorably follows from the previous point.

The style he used gives his arguments heft. No flash, no glitter, just substantial point after subtantial point after subtantial point delivered unemotionally until the conclusion is so obvious it hardly needs to be stated.

Very effective. Compelling, really. Probably his CIA training. Also the manner in which the most effective legal briefs are written.

A lot of us who post here could do worse than follow Pollack's style.
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