"Greenwald is an advocate, not a journalist" This is important to remember.

[Smarmie Doofus]

133. Actually, I agree. It is somewhat disconcerting that he didn't oppose Iraq from the get-go...

... but I was further persuaded that his halting conversion to the antiwar camp came in good faith. Mainly the arguments of the Greenwald-haters below... wherein they use his own explanations of his thought processes at that time (2002-3) to discredit him... when all I can see there is a gradual, good-faith conversion based on an evolving understanding of the facts as they became known ( e.g. no wmds) and an improving understanding of the political context in which they took place. ( pnac, oil, MI complex, etc. etc.).

I'm not sure exactly what his own path was but a lot of LGBT people, esp. tended to back-burner foreign policy and economic issues because we ( lgbt's) were under existential threat during the pre-Clinton years. And back again under it during Bush 2.


Many LGBTs ... myself included... settled for a much more conservative critique of US society and foreign policy than we otherwise would have ... as long as Bill and Hillary kept the barbarians at the gate.

But the IWR and all that horror shocked us ( oldsters who remembered VN) back into reality.

Greenwald was about 35.... a different generation, ergo a different ( non VN) frame of reference. Thus... one can understand... smart as he is... his being slow to figure out what was really going on in 2002-3.

That he figured it out and change course speaks *well* of him.