Electric Josh

Matt Taibbi claims, in an article that I can't believe I missed four months ago, that the recent broad shift of (American) public opinion against the war in Iraq is not better late than never, which sent me scurrying back to this very space's own archives from late 2002 through 2003, just to make sure that (if nothing else) my kids, when they get old enough to wonder what the hell anyone was thinking supporting the invasion of a country that had already capitulated to demands that weapons inspectors be readmitted, had been effectively contained for ten years, and was in the center of the Middle East, which has never been, um, stable to begin with—that when the kids start poking around on this space to figure out what their dad thought about the whole thing they don't think I'm gullible or bloodthirsty or easily frightened or blindly vengeful or something. And I think invading Iran is a terrible idea, too, one I hope we can avoid.

It's totally disturbing how quickly that turned into a rant.
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