Politics: for children only?

The Washington Post has an exceptionally silly editorial today about Gen. Pinochet. Aside from being disgenuous tripe that, as usual, attempts in an underhanded way to glorify authoritarianism, it throws in an even sillier attempt to claim that Jeanne Kirkpatrick was correct. Both claims are so wrong-headed as a factual matter that I find myself being once again puzzled by the willingness of "grownups" to write and publish material that belongs in a high school diary. As usual, I fall back on my theory that only narcissism explains this kind of silliness.

The Post had a great deal of credibility. Too bad they have decided to throw it away on conservative crack binging.