Serious about national security

Patrick Nielsen Hayden says it for me about the flak we Iraq war doves are still taking.

The reason so many in the Democratic "base" are infuriated over being lectured by the likes of Peter Beinart and Joe Biden about the need to "get serious about national security" is that the people delivering the lectures are precisely those who were wrong about one of the most important national security questions of our time.

It's a read-the-whole-thing thing.