Shorter David Brooks, "President Obama was right", New York Times, June 6 2014:
No, seriously, he was right.
About Sgt. Bergdahl.
You know me, I wouldn't be so partisan as to deny it.
It's just not how I roll.
I call it the way I see it.
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Well, it was kind of vulgar the way he did it, wasn't it, kind of Oprah-like if you know what I mean, and if you don't I'm sure you can make a good guess, and inaccurate rhetoric, unworthy grandstanding, astonishing tone-deafness, and hyperindividualized failure to make use of my well-known views on how you should always rescue a stranded individual, not for the individual's sake but for the common good, and never use spurious moral hazard arguments, but oops look at the time I don't have space to go into any of this stuff in detail especially about the inaccurate rhetoric.
Other than that...
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Also,
Steve. The always estimable
Driftglass gives Brooks a break, awarding him a pair of long pants for a rare acknowledgment of the truth, but I disagree for once: the nastiness of the Brooks peroration disqualifies him.
