You may be. He had other problems remember, like he didn't relate to regular people very well, and, of course, he didn't like broccoli.

Maureen Dowd also had a stunning op-ed piece today in the NYT. In this piece she makes the point that war is a function of total commitment to winning, ugly and brutal if need be. She asks whether we are ready to accept this as a society. She doesn't think we are. Why would we when as a society we were deceived by our own leaders?

I tend to agree with her on both points. As a result, it is important for us to get out, do the best we can to leave in a way that gives average Iraqis a chance to survive, and apologize to the world for our hubris by following a more consensus driven foreign policy.