Sunday, December 26, 2010

This is the New York Times on Smack

Now I make fun of neocon Chicago-school economics as much as the next fellow. But this editorial by Margaret MacMillan in the New York Times makes no sense. Either it's spectacularly badly edited by the Christmas Day skeleton crew at the Times or it's just badly thought out. Midway through the essay, titled "Ending the War to End All Wars" she seems to actually change her mind about her point. Here's the final line:

  • In my view Germany could and should have made reparations for its aggression in World War I — but was the risk of renewed war worth forcing it to do so?
Uh. Wait. What? Let me answer the question: "No".

There. Wasn't that easy? Somewhere on the order of a hundred million people died in WWII. So uh, no, it wasn't worth the risk Margaret. Thanks for asking.

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