HOYT ON WAR WHORE KRISTOL

Clark Hoyt, the public editor for the New York Times, writes that although he wouldn't have hired Kristol as a columnist,

But it is not the end of the world. Everyone should take a deep breath and calm down. Safire was greeted with jeers and got off to a rocky start, calling Watergate “a tempest in a Teapot Dome” before eventually acknowledging that he had been “grandly, gloriously, egregiously wrong.”

The last phrase it the crucial difference between Safire and Kristol: Kristol will NEVER admit he's wrong because his political beliefs are in essence a religion.