Fred Kaplan, whose work I seldom appreciate, has got me here. He deconstructs the actual argument of the Truscott piece I celebrated yesterday, about Petraeus, by a close reading and a simple inquiry: what is Truscott actually saying, rather than what's the emoticon equivalent of his tone?
I must confess that Kaplan seems to have nailed it, in his response. He still manages a careful critique of the war and its masters, but he shows that Petraeus wasn't really all that culpable, as far as Iraq is concerned.
I think there is FOP on my shoe.
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