Dumbass headline of the day

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 9:42 PM Share

Look, not every op-ed piece about diplomacy with Syria needs to be headlined "On the road to Damascus." It is just not that clever. In fact, it is getting mighty tired.

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JAMESW

10:05 AM ET

March 2, 2009

On the road to Damascus

Good call. While we're on the subject, how about an end to every Russian story being headlined "The Russians are coming" or something starting "From Russia with..."?

 

TOM RICKS

7:30 PM ET

March 2, 2009

Foreign news cliches

Yes, that is a good one.

Maybe we should start a warning list of tired foreign policy headlines.

 

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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