Ron Kean, on Peter Wehner:

The argument Mr. Fukuyama makes, like many on the left, relies on reading tea leaves or crystal balls. They say things would have been better if we hadn’t gone there, as if anybody can know that.

They ignore the intelligence. Why do we pay the officers of the CIA anyway? If we don’t err on the side of caution, where should we err? If Americans were hurt or killed by WMD’s from customers of Saddam, it might have been worse.

All war is bad. Provocation is debatable. In the end, is the country free and secure or chaotic and oppressed? I think the Iraqis were given a gift. A nice one.