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Neo-cons vs. New York Times. (Correspondence).

Lieber, Robert J.

JOHN B. JUDIS' "NEO-CONS vs. New York Times" [Sept. 23, 2002] has managed to turn Henry Kissinger's position on U.S. action in Iraq upside down. Judis says that the "Times' reporters were correct to include him among the administration's critics" and "if anything" the authors "understate Kissinger's dissent" from administration strategy. But there is nothing "delphic" about Kissinger's position, especially concerning the two most fundamental points in the debate. First, on preemption, Kissinger wrote: "The imminence of ...