Arianna Huffington: John McCain, Iraq, and the Eyewitness Fallacy
Mar 27, 2008 - John McCain's glowing post-visit assessment of conditions in Iraq, and Hillary Clinton's hyperbolically harrowing recollections of her 1996 trip to Bosnia both stand as shining examples of what the British writer Malcolm Muggeridge dubbed "the eyewitness fallacy."
In a brilliant essay, Muggeridge described public figures of strong conviction throughout history -- many of them greatly admired and…

