Wednesday, January 08, 2003

Whipping Up a Justification for War

Stripped of its verbiage, ex-Bush speechwriter David Frum's new book The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush reduces to this: "I was asked to provide a justification for a war that would put Washington more wholly in charge of the region that any power since the Ottomans."

More on the Frum book, here. Or, alternatively, turn on your TV. Frum is everywhere, it seems.