[Peach]

You are to the left of Thomas Friedman of the NYT. His editorial, thread on FR yesterday, supports the hard work our soldiers are doing in Iraq, although he just couldn't resist making a few "suggestions".

[Austin Willard Wright]

Perhaps I am to the right of you. Like Hayek, I distrust the conceit of master planners and international social engineers. I am not a blind believer in the the theory of the world policers that we can bring about the utopian miracle of creating a "democratic/unified" Iraq despite thousands of years of history and ethnic/religious hatreds which indicate otherwise.

I am realist, not a utopian, which puts me on the right, not on the pie-in-the-sky left. Back in 1998, when conservatives opposed the Kosovo war they agreed with me. Now they have become Wilsonians.