[ElevenLathe]

The main thing people pin on Brooks is selling the Iraq war to the American public, which IMO is fair, though almost any mainstream journalist working at the time is nearly as culpable IMO. Also, we tend to forget that lazy, troopsucking journalists just did the propaganda -- they didn't actually plan and order the invasion and "counterinsurgency." That blame lives with the White House, and Congress, and the Pentagon, as always.