Hendrick Hertzberg in The New Yorker

Below is a letter I sent to The New Yorker, in response to Hertzberg's article in the December 10th issue. "Follow the Leaders".

The premise of Hendrick Hertzberg's article, that the "Bush Administration's Mesopotamian misadventure" brought about "regime change" among our allies as well as in Iraq, is absurd on its face. Over a long enough time period, the leadership of democratic governments does change, for example in France, which Hertzberg conveniently overlooks, where the new president, Sarkozy, is a much stronger ally of Bush (for better or worse) than Chirac ever was. I am anything but a fan of the Bush Administration, but we shouldn't let that affect our ability to reason properly.
(end of letter)

Don't hold your breath waiting for this letter to appear. After sending it, I realized that "absurd on its face" is too"in your face" for The New Yorker, although it would fit in quite nicely on the Wall Street Journal editorial page!