You know it’s pretty sad that Jane Harman wanted to buy this magazine when it puts out stuff like this:
September 11 was a shock to the American psyche and the American system. As a result, we overreacted.
I get a feeling they might have overpaid for the rag. As you might guess it’s Christmas in September on the right side of the ‘sphere on this stuff:
Powerline…agrees on the overplaying line and says:
Zakaria tries to dispose of this point in a subordinate clause conceding the efficacy of “serious countermeasures.” Zakaria decries a number of countermeasures that are supposedly excessive, but he nowhere bothers to make the case that they have not contributed to the prevention of another successful attack. He simply assumes the conclusion.
Patterico… has a long memory:
Remember when the New York Times expressed its puzzlement that the prison population was increasing “despite” the drop in crime?
I do. As I observed at the time:
This is like saying “Joe Blow has been continuing to exercise despite the fact that he has been getting in much better shape.”
Fareed Zakaria today has the terrorism equivalent of this idiocy: decrying our proactive anti-terrorist measures — which we have taken despite the fact that Al Qaeda hasn’t hit us with another 9/11.
You know if I’m Mattie Fein I point to this article and declare: “This is the magazine that the Harman’s bought to preserve this editorial slant.”
memeorandum thread here
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