Salon
by Gary Kamiya

12/16/05

In the face of America's righteous rage, [Robert] Fisk was one of the few commentators who dared to posit that America's policies had something to do with the attacks. And he did so with with brutal honesty. 'There will be those swift to condemn any suggestion that we should look for real historical reasons for an act of violence on this world-war scale,' Fisk wrote -- and he didn't know the half of it. He was immediately savaged. Critics called him an appeaser, a traitor, an American-hater, an ally of Saddam. ... Right-wing bloggers have spent so much time attacking Fisk that they actually named a verb after him: to 'fisk' something is to tear it apart... [subscription or ad view required]

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/12/16/fisk


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp