Oh, That New York Times Geopolitical Acumen!

This time it didn’t take the New York Times 5-days to discover that U.S. troops are in Iraq, not Iran. It took one-day for the New York Times to discover that “the British partitioned colonial India into the states of India and Pakistan. It was not granted independence by India.” With geopolitical acumen like that speeding up at the New York Times, when can we expect it to admit what the rest of the major media is being forced to realize, that the “surge” in Iraq is working.

Correction: November 10, 2007

An article yesterday about the anger on the streets of Pakistan over President Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of emergency rule misstated the circumstances of Pakistan’s independence 60 years ago. It was created when the British partitioned colonial India into the states of India and Pakistan. It was not granted independence by India.