Op-Ed Sociopaths

The Sociopaths That Have Taken Over the Op-Ed Pages

Is it me, or in the last year have we seen a shocking rise in the number of major pundits who have acknowledged (perhaps inadvertently) their own sociopathic tendencies? I ask this after reading this from the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen:

“I originally had no moral qualms about the war…I was encouraged in my belief by the offensive opposition to the war — silly arguments about oil or empire or, at bottom, the ineradicable and perpetual rottenness of America…In a post-Sept. 11 world, I thought the prudent use of violence could be therapeutic.”