Letters to the Editor

Steven Pearlstein and the strange pro-bailout justifications As Wall Street hordes its bailout cash rather than using it to unfreeze credit markets, bailout proponents twist themselves into knots to justify their conduct. Glenn Greenwald [2008-10-31]

• Dissing the bloggers

  Blogger Andrew Sullivan, five days ago, quoting blogger Joshua Landis:

  http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/what-just-happe.html

  26 Oct 2008
  [...] Petraeus sought to go to Damascus in December 2007 to restart intelligence sharing, but was forbidden from doing so by the White House. [...]

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  ABC News, yesterday:

  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6148650

  Exclusive: Petraeus Wants to Go to Syria;
  Bush Administration Says No
  Oct. 30, 2008
  Apparently Gen. David Petraeus does not agree with the Bush administration that the road to Damascus is a dead end. ABC News has learned, Petraeus proposed visiting Syria shortly after taking over as the top U.S. commander for the Middle East. The idea was swiftly rejected by Bush administration officials [...]

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