Anti-Climacus

WELL: So maybe Iraq is going to pot, maybe it isn't. I think there's probably far too much of a rush to be evaluative at the moment (for maybe totally valid reasons), but I think the best thing all involved parties could do is just chill out for a bit. Our information is incomplete, so we certainly can't make judgments as people who know. It seems much more likely to me that the current back-and-forth and indecision is worse, in the long run, than picking any particular course of action and just sticking to it (one could make an argument that this is precisely what the Bushies are doing, were one so inclined) on a simple application of Occam's Razor: do not multiply policies unneccessarily.

But maybe I should be being a bit more evaluative, given that I supported the war for pretty full-throated democracy promotion, anti-fascist reasons. So far as my motivation for supporting the war in Iraq goes, I suppose I have to believe two things to still support Bush: 1. that he's more likely than any other option to do the right thing in Iraq and 2. That his instincts are such that he'll continue to do the right thing in other situations around the world. I think both are probably still true, and I doubt Kerry on both of those, so there you go.