War & Peace, Clinton & Bush

Some weeks ago I was reading a report on Clinton-nostalgia among European leaders and diplomats. Astonishingly, many of these luminaries stated (off the record) that they would not have opposed intervention in Iraq if Clinton were still president.
Whatever your opinion regarding Iraq, this is clearly not a very rational way to set policy. Yet it isn't just the Europeans following their hearts rather than their heads: as Robert Kagan points out in today's Washington Post, such eminent figures as Michael Walzer have also flip-flopped, discarding closely reasoned opinions simply because they are now shared by the "wrong" people.

Posted by David on December 24, 2002 3:33 PM