The Washington Post With Egg on its Editorial Face
Ignorance is bliss. Sounding as if it were ghost-written for the Post editorial board (as indeed it may have been) by Robert Kagan, their neocon-attack-dog-in-reserve, the piece had its own excesses of cynical mockery. He (it, they) continues,
In a stunningly ignorant editorial, Message for Mr. Putin, the Washington Post lays out what can only be characterized as an adolescent rant, thusly;
IN THE PAST few days, the anti-Western rhetoric of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which had been rising in pitch for several months, has reached Soviet levels of shrillness. He accused the United States of "imperialism" and "diktat" and threatened to target Europe with new Russian weapons. In an interview with foreign journalists, he cynically mocked Western democracy, saying that U.S. "torture, homelessness, [and] Guantanamo" and Europe's "harsh treatment of demonstrators" have left him as the only "absolute and pure democrat" in the world.
Ignorance is bliss. Sounding as if it were ghost-writte…