The news that the Washington Post has fired its best blogger, Dan Froomkin, is sad, but not totally unexpected. Froomkin was unabashedly liberal, and was often a lone voice in the past few years blasting the Bushit Assministration for its domestic and foreign policies. But he was also known for taking the Obama Administration to task when he felt they were falling down on their commitments. Salon's Glenn Greenwald has a good take on the firing, and notes that the WaPo editorial pages have become a haven for right-wing neocons.
It's ironic that on today's WaPo op-ed page we find Chuck Kraphammer and Wolfie Wolfowitz spouting the neocon line that Obama should interfere in the Iranian political struggle, a move that would be disastrous for the Mousavi supporters, who can't afford to be portrayed as agents of the U.S. But the neocons --and their Likudnik brothers in Israel -- would rather have the reactionary Ahmadiddledoo as the adversary, rather than a more moderate leader in Iran, so that military action against Iran becomes more likely.
