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Talent on Loan From God
Posted by Kevin

Why doesn’t hilzoy have a job writing for Time or Newsweek?

I admire Peter Beinart’s willingness to think about what he got wrong, and why. But while I think that he’s right to say that we can’t be the country the Iraqis and South Africans wanted us to be — a country wise enough to liberate other countries by force — there’s another mistake lurking in the train of thought he describes. Namely:

It’s not just that we aren’t the country Beinart wanted to think we were; it’s that war is not the instrument he thought it was.

Go read the whole thing; that quote is the least of the piece.

February 28th, 2007 General, Writing, Iraq | 3 comments

3 Comments »

  1. Kevin T. Keith writes:

    She’s got a full-time academic job and seems to like it. But she sure is good.

    Comment 2/28/2007

  2. Kevin writes:

    KTK

    Yeah, but she can spemnd the she spends blogging writing for the Times :)

    Comment 2/28/2007

  3. Kevin T. Keith writes:

    That’s not a bad idea. Getting a columnist gig is awfully hard, especially if you’re not a professional journalist, but I wish somebody would give her a bigger forum.

    Comment 2/28/2007

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