Timothy Noah makes a point about the Iraq War that strikes me as very important; that the decision of what we should do there has as least as much to do with our own national pride as with what will be best for Iraq. And the way we deal with the fact that things didn't go the way we wanted over there is to, of course, blame the Iraqis. (If you want to see a great example of this, read Charles Krauthammer this morning. Apparently, we were right to bring our brand of democracy to Iraq. Those stupid people were wrong not to vote in the government we wanted them to have there. Maybe instead of Halliburton, we should have sent in Diebold to run things.)