Now He Tells Us

The editor of the New York Times editorial page, Andrew Rosenthal, is out with a blog post headlined "Putin's Dubious Opinion," saying that President Putin's op-ed piece that ran in the Times contained a claim that "was dubious at the time" and now "seems even less supportable." Good for Mr. Rosenthal for displaying some editorial judgment, though his doing so in a blog post after running the Putin article rather than in editing the Putin article before it appeared seems a bit like an attempt to have it both ways.