It's an Op-Ed piece, so Kaplan is paid by - - - ?
You don't know, do you? The chance that this is a legitimate article is remote, though, just as the blogs you cite wholesale and in their entirety.
And, if you aren't being paid, you should be.
That's the problem. The corruption of the PR system by the Bush Regime has rendered not only your sources but you suspect, not to be taken seriously, certainly not to be relied upon.
And it's all been yer heroes, the right wing, the neocons doing, not the lefts.