Max Sawicky, still fretting about the future of the nation, laments that during the election “On the war, the argument was basically there were no WMDs so the invasion was unjustified. In other words, if there were WMDs, it would have been. Might have been, with a ‘competent’ Administration.” Everyone knows where I stand on the competence issue. The WMD one, is, I think, interesting and complicated. In particular, one of the paradoxes of the Iraq War is that though it was sold with reference to an advanced Iraqi nuclear program, had there actually been both an advanced Iraqi nuclear program and a US administration genuinely concerned about it, there almost certainly wouldn’t have been a war.

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Rarely is the question asked: Has Glenn Reynolds lost his mind? — “my speculation that Iran has some method — nuclear or otherwise — that has deterred us from taking the kind of action that both Bill Quick and I expected in 2004 is seeming better-founded.”

What’s the “otherwise” here? Rick Santorum’s Venezuelan space terrorists, perhaps? And what “kind of action” did he and master strategist Bill Quick expect?