No Time for Retribution

New York Times by Roger Cohen | Apr. 22, 2009 (Opinion)

To some degree, words failed us all in the aftermath of 9/11, a time of fear and disorientation. Journalists did not meet the challenge of holding the executive branch accountable, politically and morally, in the run-up to the Iraq war. Such failures, it is true, were not gross manipulations of the law in the service of inhumanity, but they were failures nonetheless. And they carried a human price.

So I’m wary of the clamor for retribution. ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Shane Wealti - Apr 24, 2009 - 10:56 PM PDT
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 by Shane Wealti - Apr. 26, 2009

Cohen's justification for being wary of retribution is that "words failed us all in the aftermath of 9/11, a time of fear and disorientation. Journalists did not meet the challenge of holding the executive branch accountable, politically and morally, in the run-up to the Iraq war."...except that there was a vocal minority who did exactly that but were ridiculed. His justification seems to rest on "we were all wrong so there's no accountability".

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