March 25, 2004

I think I've decided that life is too short and the rotational velocity of the Earth too great for me to justify reading Richard Clarke's book. I'm glad others in the blogoshphere are doing it, though. I've spent far too much time these past couple of weeks having debates (arguments) with 2 friends and 1 cousin about the war in Iraq. I'm supposed to be saving it for the blog, but I regressed.

The smoldering argument vibes, however, make me appreciate bloggers who are trying to give Clarke an honest, unbiased reading. Anne Cunningham is one, though she hasn't yet gotten too far in the book as of this writing. And then Daniel Drezner has some interesting observations. As a spectator, I'm getting a sense of Clarke as the sort of person who has grave doubts about anyone who has grave doubts about him. But I defer to those who are reading his book and cross referencing that against how he comes across in testimony vis-à-vis any baldly contradictory remarks he may have made in the past.

Here's Drezner (his page is not coming up right now so I can't supply the link):

Still, it's hard not to believe that Clarke's evaluation of presidential performance is directly correlated with how well those presidents treated Clarke.

As they used to say in the late nite TV ads: "read the book" (so I don't have to).

-Jeremy

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