It’s nice that other people are able to write pretty much exactly what I think about the war; it saves me from having to do it myself. Jesse Walker has nicely captured the sense of satisfaction at the speed and outcome of the war mixed with the cautious ambivalence that have marked my own lazily unvocalized musings. And his Reason magazine colleague Brian Doherty wrote a nice plea for the U.S. to reject the growing support for American empire-building. When things settle down in Iraq, we should get out and stay the hell out from that point forward.