Warren Strobel continues to set a high standard for his colleagues. You’ll probably remember that he and Jonathan Landay, then of Knight-Ridder and now at McClatchy, reported the truth about the war before it started. They used the old worn-out method of reporting, asking questions of people who might know, rather than the modern streamlined method of copying down the words of the White House press secretary. Worked!
So it’s probably not surprising that Strobel thinks the truth is important.
Striking a theme that has been present in many of her recent speeches, and perhaps providing a hint of her future activities, Rice said education is an important national security issue:If I am concerned about one core issue for America, we’ll get through the many challenges and difficulties that we have, but the state of education in this country is a challenge that we better meet, and we’d better meet it soon.
It would be mean, very mean, of us to suggest that a proper accounting of history, even recent history, is a critical ingredient of a good education.
