"Pander and Run"

This criticism of Democrats had to come from the left, and I'm glad that it did. Peter Beinart takes Democrats to task for their stunt with Nouri al-Maliki in the Washington Post and in doing displays why The New Republic is one of the few liberal magazines I still read. While I view TNR as wrong more often than they are right, their approach to issues of the day is still one I can respect...most of the time. Unfortunately for Beinart and TNR, this is only going to put the magazine further into the cross hairs of the rabid left, even though his article appears in the Post.