> Fisk's a good journalist, but he's also something of a windbag, given to
> grandiose prounouncements and to contradicting himself all over the place.
> It's why he 's such a punching bag for the right. In Iraq, he issued similar
> pronouncements that the U.S. was losing to Saddam even as Baghdad fell.
He also repeatedly dismissed the notion of a civil war erupting in Iraq as absurd.
But he's a punching bag for the right probably more because he's a good journalist.
-- Andy