Fisking The Washington Post

Andrew Sullivan
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/12/the-neocons-rally-against-hagel.html

It's a now familiar trope - fisking, i.e. going through a piece of writing line by line and arguing with it - and I used to do it much more in the past. But this Washington Post editorial is such a classic and says so much about Washington's assumptions, prejudices and institutional interests, it's time to do it again. So here goes. The WaPo is in italics. My take is not.