What I can't understand is how anyone can respect the NY Times with stuff like this being published. This guy is one of the paper's star writers and he writes

What I can't understand is how anyone can respect the NY Times with stuff like this being published. This guy is one of the paper's star writers and he writes this kind of thing. It's one thing to be conservative and wish to defend atrocities committed by governments, but it's completely another to do so using the kinds of techniques Brooks employs. I'd go so far as to say that the NY Times is complicit in the moral wrongs that it spreads propaganda to help cover up.