[PJ-Comix]

And what was that with Rowland Evans trying to give foreign policy advice to Aziz? I don't know much about Evans but wasn't he overstepping his bounds as a journalist?

[ClearCase_guy]

I don't know much about Evans but wasn't he overstepping his bounds as a journalist?

It depends on the definition of journalist. I believe that it is now considered appropriate for a journalist to do the following:

1) Assist foreign leaders in destroying America's friends.
2) Reveal the location of American troops within a war zone (and where they will be in a few hours).
3) Remain silent when observing American troops approaching an ambush (this one is a point of contention -- older journalists like Peter Jennings adhere to this, but younger, embedded journalists, tend to disregard this one).

[vbmoneyspender]

He was just explaining why the Iran-Iraq war was the most important issue in the Middle East when Rowland Evans, co-author of the famous Evans & Novak column, interrupted him. "You must not talk like that!" he lectured the startled Iraqi foreign minister. Evans instructed Aziz to tell the US government that the Arab-Israeli conflict was the Middle East's central issue and that the lack of peace was all Israel's fault.

I guess we now know why Novak and Evans are able to work so effectively together.