Boston Globe Cost-Cutting
Apparently, the Boston Globe, under orders from World Headquarters in New York City, has made some cuts to save money.
One of them is to replace the conservative op-eds normally served there with a op-ed-writing computer program. Here is what the program, Jeff Jacoby 2.0, produced two days ago.
"When you stand for your liberty," Bush told the world's prisoners of conscience in 2005, "we will stand with you." Yet while the brave democrat Ayman Nour rots in an Egyptian jail, Washington continues to send $1.8 billion in aid each year to the brutal regime of Hosni Mubarak.
That $1.8 billion per year satisfies the United States's obligations under the Camp David accords, which mandated contributions to both Israel and Egpyt.
That $1.8 billion payment is the main reason why Israel and Egypt, which fought a war in 1967 and another in 1973, have not fought a war since then.
Why Jacoby would prefer a world in which Israel and Egypt were at best threatening each other with war and were probably fighting one now and again, over a world in which the two countries have stepped well back from a permanent-war posture is a very good question. Why the Globe continues to insult its readers that historic events like the Camp David accords simply do not matter is another good question.
Labels: Boston Globe, Camp David accords, Jeff Jacoby, stupid pundit tricks
