Quote of the Day

James Wolcott, on the awarding of the Medals of Freedom to Paul Bremer, Tommy Franks, and George Tenet:
My expertise in military strategy is somewhere above David Frum's and below Hillary Duff's, but I fail to be impressed by the victory of a high-tech superpower over a Third World weakling which had been bashed to bits during the first Gulf War and under sanctions for a decade after.


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