Comments on: The Benefits of Hysteria http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/08/03/the-benefits-of-hysteria/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: anonymous http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/08/03/the-benefits-of-hysteria/comment-page-1/#comment-2892 anonymous Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:45:03 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1960#comment-2892 http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/08/beauchamp_recants.asp Looks like the stories were mostly a fabrication after all. Though, I don't think that these stories, regardless of their veracity, say much about the wisdom of our policy in Iraq. Hence, it seems to me many people are a little bit more excited about it all than seems justified. http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/08/beauchamp_recants.asp

Looks like the stories were mostly a fabrication after all. Though, I don’t think that these stories, regardless of their veracity, say much about the wisdom of our policy in Iraq.

Hence, it seems to me many people are a little bit more excited about it all than seems justified.

]]> By: Adam http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/08/03/the-benefits-of-hysteria/comment-page-1/#comment-2891 Adam Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:19:12 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1960#comment-2891 I'd prefer that the TNR piece didn't contain the error, but uncovering it hardly seems worth the chilling effect this may have on war reporting. It's damned hard to get information out of a war zone, and now apparently Beauchamp is being investigated by the army, he's cut off from talking to even his own family, and his fellow soldiers now refuse to speak to reporters. How again is this immunologically useful? I’d prefer that the TNR piece didn’t contain the error, but uncovering it hardly seems worth the chilling effect this may have on war reporting. It’s damned hard to get information out of a war zone, and now apparently Beauchamp is being investigated by the army, he’s cut off from talking to even his own family, and his fellow soldiers now refuse to speak to reporters. How again is this immunologically useful?

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