Reply #2: Sure, the good stuff... [View All]

[Miss Authoritiva]

Sure, the good stuff always gets cut for space, and always by the lowliest of copyeditors and page layout editors. And when that fails, it's all because of a transcription error or scanning error (blame Microsoft Vista!). And when all else fails, blame the freelancer or temp employee who just happened to be passing through that week.

So the fault lies not in Luttwak's bizarre askewniverse or in the impaired judgment of the NYT's op/ed page editor for runnning the piece at all, but in the editing. Which, as I recall, was the reason the NYT gave for its appalling pre-Iraq War coverage. An entire year's worth of reporting and op/ed writing was simply one huge editing error.