Here's How Not to Craft an Argument
In this Sunday's New York Times, the novelist Lucien Truscott IV manages to set some kind of land-speed record for stupid or wrong observations in the span of a single oped. High among them is his claim that the generals who won World War II did not care about their uniforms. Warning: if the exceptions to your rule about World War II generals include George Patton and Douglas MacArthur, then your rule is wrong.
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David Frum
David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.
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