The newspaper hails a fellow warmonger. Any deviations, from the Times’s viewpoint, can be forgiven in a man who backs perpetual war in the Middle East. Ron Paul, who did much better in Pennsylvania than Huckabee, is an afterthought in the Times’s coverage because he favors peace instead of war, life instead of death, property instead of destruction — and because he refuses to join in the state-media demonization of The Other, whether Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Palestinian, or anyone else.