Yes, Dave, he’s basically right. But I wonder if, when he first
heard about the ports deal without hearing the details, his
reaction wasn’t the same jolt of shock that all the rest of us
felt. His language shows a weird lack of empathy for the very
understandable concerns that this news raised at first blush.
Compare his perspective to Jonah Goldberg’s
LA Times column: Goldberg is also critical of the
hysteria over the ports deal, but unlike Brooks he doesn’t descend
into a reactive hysteria of his own.