Hitchens on Ford

Well, I posited yesterday about what an Yglesian "liberal" media might do to "balance" out the kind words on behalf of a a deceased Republican President. Turns out I was only slightly off. Instead of an Alterman style hit, Slate gives us a Hitchens hit from the right.

Since Hitchens covers Ford's foreign policy legacy, I'd have to go so far as to say that it's practically fair game due to the timing of Woodward's release of Ford's position on Iraq and other conservative apostasies. In all fairness, Woodward might have been wise to at least hold off on the release until Ford had at least been physically buried. As it is, there's a certain degree of fairness in asking what's so relevant about Ford's views on this matter and putting them into context of his own foreign policy credentials.