Thursday, June 07, 2007

For You Fans of Conservative Intellectual Trivia...   [John Podhoretz]

...please note that Peter Rodman co-authored a piece about the cost of defeat in Iraq in the New York Times today with William Shawcross. Twenty-eight years ago, in the pages of the American Spectator, Rodman wrote one of the most authoritative takedowns I (or anybody else) has ever read or written. The subject? William Shawcross's Sideshow — a book that blamed the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia on the United States and on Henry Kissinger. Shawcross, then perhaps England's foremost leftist journalist, has undertaken a singular journey over the past two decades to the view that the United States is the key positive force for good in the world. Today's op-ed completes that journey, and it represents a degree of grace in transformation that is very, very rare.

06/07 12:58 PMShare