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August 14, 2006
the atlantic groan
My most trusted source of news makes me groan. The Atlantic is the most thorough, agendaless magazine I've ever read, yet when it arrives in my mailbox, I whimper. Why? Because I am a slow reader, and because this is a magazine in which articles end only when they're damned well ready, if not a good deal later than that. I groan because I know I'm going to be slogging through some brilliant but interminable articles.
These last two issues, though, I've laughed at the cover. The first arrived the day after al Zarqawi was killed, and the cover featured him as "America's deadliest enemy in Iraq." It's every magazine editor's dream come true to have on the shelves for two months a cover story that's been overtaken by current events. For an encore, they cranked out this week's prophetic cover:
It's actually a great article, about how al Qaeda's greatest victories are what we've done to ourselves, reactively, and how we need to wrap up the "war on terror" rhetoric. Pity no one will read it.
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