Griper Blade: Jonah Goldberg: Iraq's a Mistake We Should Continue Making

National Review writer and syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg might have written what would be the most truthful, insightful, and concise column of his career -- had he just stopped after the third sentence.

There's a strict taboo in the column-writing business against recycling ideas. So let me start with something fresh.

The Iraq war was a mistake.

At this point, rightwingers gain brownie points for just stating the obvious. Expect his next column to suggest the very slight possibility that the religious right is a pack of nutbars or that it's time to stop denying a heliocentric solar system and admit that Galileo may have been right.

Unfortunately, the column doesn't end after the third sentence. Having established that Iraq is a hole, Goldberg ignores Donald Rumsfeld's advice regarding holes (which, to be fair, Rummie also ignores) and suggests we dig there...

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