Drudge tells us that Andrew Rosenthal--son of the late, great A.M., and currently an assistant managing editor of foreign affairs--will take over the editorship of the editorial page on January 1.  A brief sampling of his thinking--as revealed in the interview with Brian Lamb of C-SPAN reported here by Matt Drudge, and of his work in an excerpt to be presented in the continuation--is enough to inspire a KEEP GAIL COLLINS! movement.  I hope that Mr. Drudge will accept my apologies for confiscating his entire post, but you must read the whole thing to get the flavor of what an incoherent twerp this Rosenthal is--

Continued...

Incoming editorial page editor of the NYT says "it's becoming more likely" that the paper will call for the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, in an interview today with C-SPAN's Brian Lamb for "Q & A", airing Sunday at 8/11 p.m. ET. Andrew Rosenthal assumes the post Jan 1. 

Lamb: Do you think you'll eventually call for us to get out of Iraq?

Andrew Rosenthal- Wow, should I answer that question?

Lamb - Absolutely.

Rosenthal- I think it's becoming more likely. I mean I don't know what George Bush is going to say. We've been going through this very odd spectacle this week of all these meetings and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. We actually wrote about it this week. I mean, are we really supposed to believe he just started thinking about it this week? What are these meetings about? Are we supposed to believe the Army just started thinking about it this week? I mean its crazy. It has to be true that he's just going through this for some crazy public relations stunt.

It depends on what he says - if he comes up with a plan that could lead in some reasonable period of time to an orderly withdraw than that's one thing. If he sticks to these fictions about achieving victory and all the other things that he keep talking about then we may have to change. It really does depend, I mean, we're going to withdraw our troops from Iraq and we're going to do that without initiating a fully functioning government that serves as a beacon of hope for the Middle east. I mean its interesting and very instructive to go back and look at last year's strategy for success in Iraq strategy included: defeating terrorists, establishing full democracy in Iraq, an independent army, and an Iraq that is part of the international economic system, I don't know what that means. Are they supposed to join the IMF or the WTO I don't know what the heck that means. And this kind of burgeoning democracy throughout the Middle East well none of that's going to happen, I think that's pretty clear - at least not in George Bush's timeframe.

There it it is.  The President's meetings with major political, military, and intellectual figures this week are not a serious effort to devise a workable strategy for the war, just a stunt to avoid having his feet held to the fire by the gratuitously sappy ISG.

To get the full impact of his raging nostalgia for the nineteen-sixties, I recommend perusal of this purple passage, an OpEd dated August 31, and entitled "There Is Silence in the Streets; Where Have All the Protesters Gone?"

No way to excerpt it. The dwindling minority of those--including this writer--who are dismayed by the decline of a once great newspaper can experience the full horror by following the link.  The rest can simply use their imagination. A gift for parody would do wonders for the latter exercise.

Contributed by John Werntz on December 16, 2006 at 06:10 AM in Current Affairs, Dem Dumbness, John "72nd TCS" Werntz | Permalink

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