From a realist perspective, Cover-Up offers a sobering lesson: American foreign policy has been consistently characterized by overreach justified through deception. Whether in Vietnam, Iraq, or ...

This category error runs throughout Carlson’s argument and is most clearly exposed in his assertion that he does not know anyone “who’s been killed by radical Islam” in the last twenty-four years.

Actually, the BBC didn’t say that—but given the Corporation’s own somewhat fast-and-loose approach to editing the speech of others, I decided to take the liberty of paraphrasing. Anyway, the sense of ...