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Friday, October 19, 2007

Pelosi, Armenia and Krauthammer

My favorite columnist on foreign affairs is Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. He has a column today on the Armenian genocide resolution in the House of Representatives. He gives his thoughts on whether he thinks this is a deliberate attempt by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to sabotage the American war efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Forgive me, but I have to steal his last paragraph:

Is the Armenian resolution her way of unconsciously sabotaging the U.S. war effort, after she had failed to stop it by more direct means? I leave that question to psychiatry. Instead, I fall back on Krauthammer's razor (with apologies to Occam): In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.