McChrystal - And The Press's Failure

David Brooks writes the following sentence today:

The most interesting part of my job is that I get to observe powerful
people at close quarters.

Like David, I am privileged in many ways to be able to meet and talk to a lot of powerful figures. David and I have been at many functions of this sort together, but I have to say I disagree. These interactions are the least interesting part of my job, and often the most misleading. Every now and then, you discover a nugget that adds something...