It is not quality journalism. The decisive question that might have qualified the whole interview wasn't asked: what is Zinni's opinion about former generals serving as CEO's of defense contractors.

No. It's a testimonial, albeit quite a bit more.

Good journalism. So far for defense. Now the NYT might move on to pharma, media, telecom etc. etc.

Ledeen is an intelligent man. He knows Italy very well and in depth. So there are no excuses for his "mistakes": "which was expected to be a photo finish." This is a lie. From the very start there has always been a gap of 10 and more percentage points. "The big news is that the Communists are gone" This is ridiculous. Bertinotti, the leader of "La Sinistra Arcobaleno" has never been a comunist while Veltroni, leader of the Democrats, has been a leading member of the comunist party."Best to keep that quiet, or somebody might notice that hatred of America doesn't seem to affect the voters in Italy, France or Germany." This is worse than ridiculous, it's plain stupid. Does Ledeen suggest that the people who renamed the French fries ... More »

A quantitative only approach to content examination is misleading. To understand why this isn't a good story go to http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/17/so_wrong_for_so_long_so_why_ch/#more .Here is an excerpt:Steve Vogel from the Washington Post was there, and he wrote a good piece for Saturday's paper. But the Post ran it on the front of its Metro section. The Metro section! There's not a single plausible reading of Winter Soldier as a local story. The Post did what any viewer of The Wire would recognize as the newspaper equivalent of putting McNulty on the Boat. It couldn't kill Vogel's story outright, so it slotted the piece where no one in power will ever read it. As Greg's book points out, that's exactly what the ... More »

omits entirely how Flemish fascists behaved against Jews before and under Nazi occupation.

It didn't start with 911 and it hasn't stopped with Iraq (from the Daily Howler): Readers, Al Gore said he invented the Internet! And: Al Gore said he discovered Love Canal! And: Al Gore said he inspired Love Story! Those tales were bogus, but they fit the script - so the New York Times kept printing them. Indeed, the Times invented two of these bogus tales - bogus tales which changed the worldÕs history. But yesterday, Krugman, playing it dumb, said that Fox has been mangling your discourse! He specifically mentioned the Whitewater hoax - which started in the New York Times, when Fox didnÕt even exist."

It shows that passion (isn't it Easter ?) and information mix well.

information about information is always welcome.

crucial for understanding the difference between armchair vs on-spot reporting, or so it seems to me

Family members of the dead children should have been interviewed, too. The reader is left without a human understanding of this apparently kafkaesque story.

This is bad journalism. The title typically answers a question nobody asked: who is more attacked for his faith, the Jew or the Muslim ? Suggesting with the final anecdote that the attackers of Jews are Muslim without stating it openly. The piece insinuates also that there was no surge in faith crimes after 7/7. Fact is: "There were 269 religious hate crimes in the three weeks after 7 July, compared with 40 in the same period of 2004." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4740015.stm

After having listened to Chris Lydon's podcast on radio opensource about the Iraqi refugee problem (read Nir Rosen in the Boston Review about it) I remember Krauthammer's "We are instead trying to sustain fragile democracies in three strategically important countries -- Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon -- that form the geographic parentheses around the principal threat to Western interests in the region, the Syria-Iran axis." Can there be a more shameless misrepresentation of reality ? I don't think so.

This is an opinion about the future of Iraq and the US's role in it. It's short and applies Robb's view of 5th generation warfare on actual facts available. The comments are enlarging and deeping the authors's view (who dialogues with commenters) of the argument.

The writer lines Bush up with great good, bad and evil leaders. That's not where Bush belongs. He's in the class of the mediocre ignitors of huge unintended consequences and the real story is the absence of a policy forming process in his administration.

it gives insight