:: Netmarcos' Notes ::

:: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 ::

This bit from Dorothy Rabinowitz is also a must read critique of the media's coverage of the war in Iraq.

The most noteworthy specimen to date, though, must be the lead Talk of the Town item in the April 14 New Yorker, in which Hendrick Hertzberg writes: "By the end of last week--even though American troops who, by all accounts, have fought honorably and without undue cruelty, were at the gates of Baghdad--it was too late for the rosy scenario of the cakewalk conservatives." We may take it, from that "undue cruelty" reference, that Mr. Hertzberg is willing to credit American troops mainly because they failed to perpetrate war crimes. It is a pronouncement worth remembering, and not for what it says about the troops.

:: Mark 1:59 PM [+] ::
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