Comments on: Juan Cole

By: Potter

Potter — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:00:03 +0000

I just finished reading the terrific article by George Packer ” The Home Front” in the New Yorker. It’s the only piece that has been able to bring me out of anger to tears lately. Anyway the magazine, in it’s good judgement has seen fit to finally publish it online here:http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050704fa_fact3

Reading Christopher Hitchens in his Slate piece: ” Don’t ‘Son’ Me” , a criticism of Packer’s extraordinary article, you want to bop this guy over the head. Hitchens is no dummy. But emotional intellegence in another thing.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2121674/

By: JonGarfunkel

JonGarfunkel — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:50:32 +0000

Very good discussion on air this evening, thank you ROS team. Have to head out now, but will check back later for Cole’s answer.

By: KenLac

KenLac — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:36:42 +0000

Brendan, this is *completely* off topic, so don’t bother reading it until after the show.

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Okay, I suspect that there are some DNS servers out there that are aiming the domain to the wrong website — sometimes I get this page, sometimes I get the test page, and when I send a comment to the test page, it doesn’t show up on the RSS feed. I’m not enough of a webmaster to know exactly what it’s all about, but I wanted to let you know something odd was going on while I still had a connection to the real site.

By: JonGarfunkel

JonGarfunkel — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:31:44 +0000

Fair enough. I guess it’s more of inside-the-media question (checking the assertion once again about how “blogs are self-correcting”) than about the wider issues about the Middle East and democracy.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:22:44 +0000

Sorry, Jon, didn’t catch that one before I went on-mike.

By: JonGarfunkel

JonGarfunkel — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:21:49 +0000

Brendan just put a call out on-air to anyone else who has a question…

By: JonGarfunkel

JonGarfunkel — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:15:17 +0000

Hmm. One question for Cole. I have occasionally read his blog over the past year, when referenced by others. As with most blogs, you have to really read a lot to gain an understanding of the context they’re providing. Forgive me for sticking by traditional reporting.

An email to Cole

from a British reservist who had been in Basra directly refutes a claim that Cole has made. Cole makes no response conceding a mistake or responding to the refutation. What am I to make of it?

By: JonGarfunkel

JonGarfunkel — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:05:51 +0000

I enjoyed Packer's recent piece in the The New Yorker, thanks for getting him on-air tonight. I then remembered that Christopher Hitchens in Slate had last week taken issue with the paternalistic framing of "sending off children" to war. He targetted Packer's piece in his salvo, and Slate rightly posted a response. See Don't "Son" Me - End this silly talk about sacrificing children.