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Roger Cohen, a sometime liberal hawk at the New York Times, nevertheless retains a lefty's myopia about the enemy we are facing.

In a jaw dropping column in today's Times,

Cohen believes one of the solutions to America's problems is that we don't watch al-Jazaeera:

To this world Al Jazeera English offers a useful primer. The network can be tendentious — bin Laden’s face up there for several minutes — in stomach-turning ways. But, over all, its striving for balanced reporting from a distinct perspective seems genuine.

A year after its launch, it reaches 100 million households worldwide. Its focus is on “reporting from the political south to the political north,” as Nigel Parsons, its managing director, put it. The world it presents, more from the impact than the launch point of U.S. missiles, is one that must be understood.