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Karl, You Were Right, I Was Wrong
When I was a senior in college I attended a program in Washington, D.C. where I took courses in American government and worked on Capitol Hill. Classes were conducted as free flowing debates among the twenty or so students in the program. As can be expected of college students, I was part of the minority of five or six students who formed the conservative cadre. I took pride in being conservative and worked my best to further conservative causes. It was during this time that I started reading The Weekly Standard. At the time Fox News was relatively new and seeing Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes on national TV blew my mind. Compared to CNN and other network news they were William F. Buckley in my mind. They became the symbols conservatism that I could stick in the face of the liberals I went to school with and lived around me.
As time went on I continued to read The Weekly Standard and even tended to agree with many articles that they published. I read it through law school and even got into frequent spirited arguments with Karl, over a pint or two, regarding the merits of the magazine and it’s editors. Looking back I suppose that most of the articles I read and agreed with dealt with foreign policy. I still agree with most of the foreign policy that the magazine proposes but I have completely turned on the rest of the magazine and her publishers. Karl, you were right, I was wrong. I have lost my stomach for the publication, Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol after reading this article.
