Jesus, How Small A Town Is Washington?

In this Think Progress post about war supporters' Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack's pro-war op-ed on Iraq and the blogosphere's reaction to it, Amanda revealed that O'Hanlon is the brother-in-law of Politico editor-in-chief John Harris. Yesterday Matt Yglesias mentioned that O'Hanlon and David Petraeus are college buddies.

Is EVERYONE in the DC commentariat somehow related or connected at the hip? It would certainly explain a lot.

Jack Murtha ripped the op-ed this morning, by the way. I guess he doesn't have relatives in DC.

UPDATE: Unbelievable. O'Hanlon doesn't mind lying on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, but when he is testifying under oath, he changes his tune.

Totally backed down. Said the progress has only been against aqi, that sectarian violence and the civil war is as bad as ever, and that the current strategy will probably fail. He thinks we should partition the country. Why the turnabout from the optimistic op-ed? He didn't say.

The turnabout is because, unlike the Bush Administration, he cares about perjury. Not about the country, because he'll say things like "best war ever" in elite media appearances to deceive people.