Here's Matthew Yglesias, on the absurdity of the Washington Post running an op-ed in favor of the Iraq surge by a man whose brother was the architect of said surge:
While The Weekly Standard has to make do with using Frederick Kagan's wife to write articles proclaiming the Kagan surge plan a success, The Washington Post believes in integrity and trots out brother Robert Kagan to do it instead. Maybe someday we can get Donald Kagan's take on all this. If only the whole world were made up of members of the Kagan family, then maybe George W. Bush would be a really popular president.It's pretty damn hard to keep all those Kagans straight, especially since there are also a bunch of Kaplans- including a Robert and a Fred, as well as a Lawrence- who are also foreign policy writers. Here is an incomplete primer on all of the above. Posted by Stephen Silver at March 12, 2007 10:12 PM