Pat Dollard

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Frank Rich is frustrated. He is clearly annoyed that the Wikileaks release of almost 92,000 pages of documents related to the war in Afghanistan has not become more of a rallying cry to end that military effort. Or more specifically, he is seeking to reassure those hoping it will ultimately have that impact, to be patient.

In today’s New York Times, he writes: “As the president conducts his scheduled reappraisal of his war policy this December, a re-examination of 1971 might lead him to question his own certitude of what he is fond of calling “the long view.” But of course, what Rich really means is that it’s maddening to him that this disclosure of information is -not- having that sweeping effect. “Last week the left and right reached a rare consensus. The war logs are no Pentagon Papers,” Rich wrote ruefully. So there began Rich’s effort to equate two very different leaks of information about two wholly different wars.

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