I’ve seen lemmings with shallower learning curves. Because of the last war for which Fred Hiatt shook his moneymaker, the influence that the United States can bring to bear on centuries-old internal conflicts in Iraq is slightly less than that wielded at the moment by the Carolina League. Our aid makes us one friend and makes for that friend a hundred enemies.
—Charlie Pierce on WaPo editorial page editor Fred Hiatt’s repeated calls for boots on the ground.
Why does Fred Hiatt still have a job?
I don’t buy into the Post‘s self image of greatness, but they deserve better than to have the 2nd worst* opinion page in the nation.
*It is self evident that the worst OP/ED page in the nation belongs to The Wall Street Journal.