[courtesy of Blog for America]

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius goes to Afghanistan on a US sponsored trip and, lo and behold, winds up believing all the "good news".  He writes about it in the Washington Post and, feeling good about all his learned observations, goes on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.  That's where he runs into:

...Barnett Rubin—someone who actually knows something about Afghanistan. Rubin’s perspective was informed by decades of scholarship focused on the country and extensive travel and work there, including over the course of the last five years—not a pop-in and pop-out hosted by U.S. Government media relations professionals with a message to sell. Watching Rubin review Ignatius’s commentary was like observing a fresh chunk of gristly brisket being put through a meatgrinder. Rubin was polite, but in the end, Ignatius was reduced to a bloody mass on the counter.

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Danny
Communications Director