Staying Classy

Reacting to my op-ed, Enough writes this about me in African Arguments, a blog maintained jointly by the Social Science Research Council and the Royal African Society:

Highlighting and embellishing the negative aspects of the current efforts to legitimize the mining sector in eastern Congo without providing historical context or highlighting positive developments raises questions of motivation and intention.

Can you imagine reputable organizations like Human Rights Watch or the International Crisis Group responding in a similar manner to an editorial published in the New York Times? It's very strange.