The myth of the opinionless man*

The problem in the cases of ousted Gen. Stanley McChrystal and ousted Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel is not that they had opinions. Of course, they had opinions. Indeed, we should damned well want them to have opinions. If they each only accepted what they were told without doubts and complaints, without discrimination, they'd each be be very bad at their jobs, wouldn't they?

The problem is not that those opinions were reported. Publicness — transparency, openness, authenticity...