This is the latest tripe from The New Republic on their ‘man in Baghdad’ aka “The Baghdad Diarist”. You know, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, the Army Private/fabulist with more of an active imagination that Lewis Carroll on acid.
The link at the bottom provides a video debate (of sorts) between the Editor-at-Large of TNR Peter Beinart, and the Editor-at-Large of The National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg. Goldberg asks pointed questions and Beinart tapdances.
IMO Goldberg treated Beinart and TNR’s asinine decision to publish Beauchamp’s slanderous, absurd crap, with a set of kid gloves.
I would’ve gone for the jugular and asked Beinart why, with all of the great battles, acomplishments, headway, and erradication of terrorists, TNR found it necessary to publish the ramblings of a disgruntled problem child. I would have asked him about the (now fired) TNR staffer who revealed that a high ranking TNR official said: “Franklin Foer doesn’t want to tell Elspeth Reeve (Beauchamp’s wife and TNR employee) her husband is a liar”. I would have asked him to come clean with the names of the ‘anonymous’ members of Beauchamp’s unit who were supposedly interviewed to validate his wild-assed stories.
I can hardly wait for TNR’s next “Statement on Beauchamp”, which seems to be occuring with less frequency.
In any case, here’s the link to the video.
Enjoy.
Link:
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=w070813&s=whatsyourproblem081607
