For TIME to do better than this?
It is striking that Andrew’s response to the barbaric murder of two servicemen is neither to offer sympathy for their families or to condemn the sadists who took their lives, but to make a mean-spirited snarky comment about the President and his top advisors.
That’s because since February 24, 2004, Andrew Sullivan has been more interested in attacking President Bush than dispassionately commenting on Administration policy. He has, as in the linked post, accused the Administration of sanctioning torture, focusing on uncorroborated reports and leaving out key details. As Heather MacDonald has shown, Andrew’s “torture narrative’ ignores some inconvenient facts.”
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Relatives and a lawyer of seven Marines and a Navy corpsman expressed shock over allegations the servicemen kidnapped, killed then tried to cover up the death of a civilian in Hamdaniya, Iraq
Posted by: coconuttree | Thursday, June 22, 2006 at 06:21 PM