Joe Klein Reminds Me Why I Dislike Him.

His latest:

I’ve been trying to figure out how best to celebrate and mourn the members of Seal Team Six and our Afghan allies who were shot down in a Chinook helicopter last week. […] And I would add: those who would see this tragedy as another opportunity to make political points, on either side–please don’t. Not that those arguments aren’t worth making; indeed, they are crucial to the national discussion we’re now having about how and where we use our resources. But linking this tragedy to the larger policy issues would desecrate those we lost.

I always love it when I am told when and where it is appropriate to discuss something, although I do admire the real skill and concurrent idiocy that Joe Klein displays in contradicting himself one sentence later in telling us how crucial the discussion is. So you tell me Joe Klein, when should discuss our Afghan policy? When Afghanistan has the attention of the American people, or when it doesn’t? It is revealing that his answer is when Afghanistan does not have the attention of the American people.