The New York Slimes

Brit Hume reported this story on Fox News this evening: "A New York Times reporter has been admonished by his superiors after voicing the hope that the U.S. can accomplish its goals in Iraq. Here's what Times chief military correspondent Michael Gordon said on The Charlie Rose show earlier this month — "As a purely personal view, I think it's worth it — one last effort for sure to try to get this right, because my personal view is we've never really tried to win. We've simply been managing our way to defeat. And I think that if it's done right, I think that there is the chance to accomplish something." Public editor Byron Calame writes that Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman said Gordon 'stepped over the line' and 'went too far.' "
Since when is it going too far to root for your own country in wartime?