Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away...

... a cute young man voiced his full throated faith in the American people.

Then he grew up and got a job with ABC.

What did they say and when did they say it - Iraq version

Don't you sometimes have a vague memory of the stipendiary punditry bloviating about the war over the last four years and consistently being wrong? But then when you catch the same guys talking now, they seems so reasonable? Willing to admit a few errors in judgement, while still insisting that their judgement now is 20/20 is the American public would just continue to show common sense by listening to them? Your memory must be playing tricks on you.

Check out Tom Tomorrow's retrospective right here.

How the MSM really sees us

They see us, i.e. the American reading public, as a bunch of self absorbed ignoramuses. Check this out. And my great fear is they may not be wrong - after all, their jobs depend on being right about how little we care about anything beyond our own smug self-regard, because.... well, we actually do pay people for this.

And my school just decided to dump any history requirement for undergrads because... its hard, and students don't like it, and they might go to another school. There's certainly no need in the 21st century for Americans to know anything about history.


Also check out the main page of the linked blog - Central Asia is fascinating.