April 2, 2008 4:55PM 

# Sentence of the Day 

By [Justin Logan](https://www.cato.org/people/justin-logan) 

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Mandarin of the Washington Establishment, Joe Klein of *Time* magazine [appears to have had just about enough of Fred Kagan’s writing on Iraq](http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/04/too_many_kagans_too_little_kno.html):

> On the day that John Yoo’s remarkable torture memo is released, this foolishness is a reminder that none of these people–none of the vicious, mendacious, naive, simplistic, unapologetic, neo-colonialist ideologues who promulgated this disaster–should have even the vaguest claim on the time or tolerance of fair-minded people.

Back story on the abominable green-lighting of torture is [here](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040102213.html?hpid=moreheadlines). Kagan article on which Klein was commenting [here](http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/931okgvl.asp).

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