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Nir Rosen screws up, bigtime

You may have noticed that friend-of-the-blog Nir Rosen screwed up bigtime with his dumbass comments about Lara Logan. Stupid, insensitive, inane, wrong-headed. Yup. My feeling in this situation is to hate the sin, not the sinner. I mean, a lot of my friends are dumbasses, and I’ve been there myself. But a little voice in ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Ashley R. Good/Flickr
Ashley R. Good/Flickr

You may have noticed that friend-of-the-blog Nir Rosen screwed up bigtime with his dumbass comments about Lara Logan.

You may have noticed that friend-of-the-blog Nir Rosen screwed up bigtime with his dumbass comments about Lara Logan.

Stupid, insensitive, inane, wrong-headed. Yup. My feeling in this situation is to hate the sin, not the sinner. I mean, a lot of my friends are dumbasses, and I’ve been there myself.

But a little voice in my head suggests that "sinner vs. sin" is the easy way out. So I ask you: What is the proper response? Should I ban Nir from the blog? I’m not promising to take your advice, but I’d like to know what you all think.

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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