Time Bombs

Playing a little catch-up here on my reading. An authoritative rebuttal of Time's predictably facile and pompous cover story on the president's foreign policy, "The End of Cowboy Diplomacy", here by Peter Wehner via RCP:

The strategy to reshape the politics and culture of the Middle East is remarkably ambitious and, as the attacks on September 11th showed, quite necessary. And if it succeeds, (a) it will take longer than a few years to achieve and (b) there will be hardships and setbacks along the way. We are talking about an undertaking of historic dimensions, in a region with long histories, few freedoms, and many settled ways. The President was never under any illusion that this would be a sail on a summer sea and done (historically speaking) in the blink of an eye. But he believed the process of reform needed to begin. Perhaps Time thought this endeavor would be easy and fast; if so, that says more about Time than it does about the President.

What are we to think of a magazine that purports to bring us salient news on a weekly basis, but mangles recent events so badly? Well yeah, it's one of the aging flagships of the MSM. I used to read it regularly when I was about 9 years old. Haven't since.