Goings on at the New York Times:

  • Our old friend Laili Helms, the Taliban apologist who lived in posh circumstances in the United States even as she defended their brutal regime, has an op-ed it today’s Times. You’d think that she’d be thoroughly ignored by this point. In her piece, she argues that America needs to take responsibility for stabilizing the country.
  • Yesterday’s editorial said John Ashcroft misses the point.
  • William Safire continued to fixate on the military tribunals in his latest piece, God love him.