Could somebody get Michael Prell of the Daily Caller and Christopher Hitchens of Slate to sit in a room together and get their story straight?? I don’t know what I’m supposed to believe!
In all seriousness, of course it makes sense that different people have different views about foreign policy. What stuns me (although I know it shouldn’t anymore) is that these pundits seem so clueless, so unaware that not everyone agrees with their premises. If Prell and Hitchens could just sit in a room for a few minutes together, talk about how much they hate Obama, and then discuss the Middle East, maybe they’d each realize, just a little bit, that their views are not so universally accepted. Prell would learn that at least one wholesome Obama-hater does not think that Mubarak is such a good long-tern deal for the Middle East, and Hitchens would learn that you don’t have to be a European-style softie to be skeptical of faraway regime changes.
I’m guessing both these dudes live in D.C. so maybe one of you well-connected readers of this blog can forward this message along. Here’s to increased recognition of uncertainty. It won’t solve any policy problems–Obama & co. still have to decide how to react to the developments in the Middle East–but maybe it could improve the level of our journalism.
