Stopped clock

Proverbially right twice a day, but Richard Cohen is an idiot even when he's right.

He doesn't reckon with any of the bullshit use of WWII in support of the misadventure into Iraq; he simply repeats it without assigning any blame for the conscious use of the example of the 1930s as lies to sell shallow thinkers like Cohen on the war.

Hardly anyone in mainstream American politics took a pacifist view after Sept. 11. I can't think of anyone in Congress who opposed going into Afghanistan, though there may have been one or two. Yet a pacifist is Cohen's straw man, and the popularity of his book is supposed to prove that.

Cohen has no idea what to think or write about the world. He just muddles a bunch of talking points together and calls it a column. And his editors help out by attaching a photo of Ann Frank.

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