Doug Ross @ Journal

Richard Cohen is an Outrage

The dull, stuck-in-the-Sixties WaPo columnist Richard Cohen excreted another vacuous column this week. It was number five thousand and three (my count could be off) in a continuing series lambasting the administration for pursuing the war on terror. From what I can tell, Cohen simply reorders the paragraphs of his previous column to produce the next. His monotopical diatribes ignore any historical, factual or current affairs basis in presenting their assertions.

You'd think Cohen would be capable of reading the news since he -- supposedly -- is in the business. But, apparently that's beyond him, since his partisan blinders prevent him from mentioning the HARMONY database, a cache of Iraqi government documents discovered after the war, which are only now being released.

The HARMONY documents are beginning to paint a worst-case scenario for the Democrats: that the President was absolutely right and utterly justified in ordering the destruction of the nexus of terrorism represented by Hussein's government. The documents -- currently being released and translated -- point to direct Iraqi sponsorship and training of Al Qaeda and its affiliates such as Abu Sayyaf.

And that's why you'll get the bile-like discharges from Cohen that disengenuously discuss the war on terror with scant mention of 9/11. Or without presenting an alternative strategy to that of promoting Democracy, which seems to be the only plausible modality for suppressing the virulent form of fascism we now face.

But Cohen couldn't be bothered with actually reading the news to figure out what's going on. Or, even if he could, certainly isn't intellectually honest enough to mention the highly germane developments represented by the HARMONY documents.

Of course, trying to present such a logical, straightforward argument to a rocket scientist like Cohen is like trying to teach quantum physics to a guppy.