The Mahablog: What's New?

I take it nothing earth-shattering happened last week. As far as I can tell, the only significant development is the (very slow) realization, dawning in a few rightie minds, that Iraq could become an Islamic theocracy.

This post by rightie blogger Professor Bainbridge presents the same arguments against the war that we liberals were making before it happened.

... if Iraq's alleged WMD programs were the casus belli, why aren't we at war with Iran and North Korea? Not to mention Pakistan, which remains the odds-on favorite to supply the Islamofascists with a working nuke. If Saddam's cruelty to his own people was the casus belli, why aren't we taking out Kim Jong Il or any number of other nasty dictators? Indeed, what happened to the W of 2000, who correctly proclaimed nation building a failed cause and an inappropriate use of American military might? ...

...The trouble with Bush's justification for the war is that it uses American troops as fly paper. Send US troops over to Iraq, where they'll attract all the terrorists, who otherwise would have come here, and whom we'll then kill. This theory has proven fallacious. ...