In an interview with the New York Observer earlier today, New Republic editor Frank Foer singles out THE WEEKLY STANDARD for recklessness in raising questions about a pseudonymous column by a soldier in Iraq, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, published two weeks ago in the New Republic. Foer’s accusation is misleading and unwarranted.

The article in question, “Shock Troops,” was a collection of first-person “vignettes” (TNR’s term) that described the author’s cruelty and that of his fellow soldiers. The point, according to the New Republic, was to depict “the morally and emotionally distorting effects of war.”