Dean Barnett, Hugh Hewitt's co-weblogger, has a post today entitled Why Barnett?. In it, Dean answers a question he's been getting from readers: “How come Hugh is focusing on this guy [Tom] when he’s wrong about (fill in the blank)?”

Dean and Hugh and Tom disagree about many things, I'm sure. Dean pointed out the Packers and Favre. But Dean's short reason is '"The Pentagon’s New Map” is a powerful piece of intellectual software.' Check out the whole post and the comments.