Mickey Kaus etc. etc. etc.
By Chris Matthews:
All signs point to a continued degradation of our situation in Iraq.
Shorter (well, roughly the same length) Mickey:
Nonsense. There’s this letter here from a Marine who says that everything is going to be fine. How can it be “all signs” if this Marine wrote a nice letter?
If you’ve been paying attention to Mickey for the last three years (and, sadly, I have), this is fairly typical; his only commentary about Iraq comes in the form of “the press seems to have come to a consensus that it’s a disaster, but aren’t they cocooning?” He’s now moved on to “Washington policymakers seem to have come to a consensus that it’s a disaster, but aren’t they, uh…”. Ten years from now: “Historians seem to have come to a consensus that it was a disaster, but who listens to them anyway?”