The Political Bankruptcy of The New York Times Punditry

I’m republishing the following for the readers of this new blog.

By Con George-Kotzabasis

Michael O’Hanlon along with his colleague Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution, must be congratulated for their article in The New York Times which foreshadowed, after their visit in Iraq in the middle of 2007, that this might be a winnable war, brought the wrath of the Jupiterian New York Times liberal pundits to cast their bolts upon their heads for saying so.

But since the success of the surge—which I too adumbrated on December 2006 in an essay of mine titled “Blueprint for Victory In Iraq”, published in Australia on March 2007, would culminate in an American victory and make 2007 the Annus Mirabilis for president Bush—the liberal critics of the war like Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, and the vitriolic, but always charming, Maureen Dowd, not to mention others, have been stricken by Nemesis with the aphasia of muteness.