Yet perfectly sensible people, who surely know better, clutter up their minds with such irrelevant factors as "the Arab street", "international opinion", the anti-war movement at home, votes in the UN and so on. They then predict that "American success is not certain", "this could be a long and bitter war" and "the spectre of Vietnam looms over George W Bush".
If they were employed by the City editor, or the sports desk, they would have been given their cards three wars ago.
Yes, but there are standards in sportswriting. I have some related comments over at GlennReynolds.com.
