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Most of the writers for the Atlanic are dead wrong (hell most op-eds are regardless of source) but David Brooks is a "conservative" by liberal standards so people on HN and Twitter love to call him out more than their progressive talking head darlings.

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The editor of The Atlantic has questionable ethics (he was a military prison guard while he served in a foreign army that's been accused of war crimes) so I always look at The Atlantic with a jaundiced eye.

As for Brooks, he defended the invasion of Iraq for years.

In case anyone is curious, this oblique description is of the editor-in-chief of Atlantic magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg

The "foreign army that's been accused of war crimes" is the Israel Defense Forces. Jeffrey Goldberg appears to have written a book about some aspects of his time as a prison guard at Ktzi'ot Prison: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139269.Prisoners

Conservatives don't like David Brooks either.

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