[AmroodWaala]

Today, our public discourse is dominated by people who have been wrong about everything — but are still, mysteriously, treated as men of wisdom, whose judgments should be believed. Those who were actually right about the major issues of the day can’t get a word in edgewise.


...on the matter of Iraq: just about every one of the panels convened to discuss the lessons of five disastrous years consisted solely of men and women who cheered the idiocy on.

What’s the point of taking the risk of challenging conventional wisdom if, even after you’re proved right, only the guys who were wrong get invited to opine on Charlie Rose?

The age of the anti-Cassandra - Paul Krugman - Op-Ed Columnist - New York Times Blog

not to forget the complicity of NY Times in war propaganda [e.g. Judith Miller & WMDs]