Goodwin's abrupt departurefrom the PBS show is a setback, but she can take comfort from the fact that U.S. News treated her as a legitimate pundit this week by quoting her prominently about Lyndon Johnson.
Our position is that it is not appropriate to contribute to the militarization of Syria, that there is opportunity still now for this process to result in the departurefrom power of Assad and a democratic transition to begin to take place.