Richard Cohen. Today's column perfectly represents all the bullshit Broderism so rife in the political press.
Obama has said something in 2008 that sounds amazingly realistic - if only it had been said by McCain in 2006! You talk to the leadership of your enemy when there's a chance for peace.
Talk is cheap, especially compared to blood. And it's not by any means a promise to give away the store.
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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Richard Cohen should be fired for his own navel-gazing irrelevance. Seriously, he's "liberal" for the neocon Washington Post, and he would never think to do anything but pox-on-both-their-houses columns that make lots of conventionally "wise" media narrative points and thrust the Rovian propaganda.
Seriously, Mike Bloomberg? Cohen has twenty candidates to choose from and he wants the other mayor of New York with all his foreign policy experience in a scenario as likely as a wookiee plucking his eyebrows?
Without looking at Eschaton yet this morning, I'd be willing to bet that Cohen is already Atrios's wanker of the day looking for a centrist pony who won't disturb the villagers but will be just the ass-kissing "centrist" they love more than anything.
No one should take the Post seriously until they fire this vapid waste of pixels. I guess that's my pony.
