[The_Media_never_lie]

‘I opposed the war in Iraq because it was the wrong war at the wrong time,’ says Governor Dean. But Liberia’s the right war any time:

Translation: as long as the war has no U.S. interest (perverse Demo/lib logic) and as long as it plays to the black voters, it's fine with me.

[Ichneumon]

It’s precisely the lack of any national interest that makes it appealing to the progressive mind. By intervening in Liberia, you’re demonstrating your moral purity.

Many people can state the obvious. Steyn's brilliance is his ability to point out something that's so self-evidently true it *should* have been obvious to all, but wasn't until Steyn spoke it.

I've lost count of the number of times I've figuratively yelled, "oh, of *COURSE*!" while reading his essays.

As far as I know, he was also the first editorialist to point out that France's monkeywrenching during the Iraq build-up had less to do with any concerns about Iraq or the US or the UN or "peace" than it did with trying to maneuver into a stronger position as top dog in the EU. It was another one of those "blindingly obvious but no one noticed until Steyn pointed it out" things.

[GOPJ]

Says it all:

Three weeks! And Bush is still just talking! The Times spent 14 months deploring the ‘rush to war’ in Iraq, but mulling over Liberia for three weeks is the worst kind of irresponsible dithering.

[Bullish]

The new Bill Buckley?

[Tailgunner Joe]

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[ellery]

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