Interesting Editiorial...

[Weltall]

This appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, my local newspaper. And it's probably the most sensible thing I've heard on the Iraq war in ages.

In the summer of 1999 warplanes pounded Serbia into submission. The U.S. flew the vast majority of the sorties in an operation that marked Europe's most sustained aerial assault since the era of the Stuka. The mission succeeded. Slobodan Milosevic fell.

Intervention had two goals. (1) defending Kosovo against Serbian aggression, and (2) changing the regime in Belgrade. Years of diplomacy had failed to restrain the malevolent appetites of Slobo and his wife, "The Red Witch". They responded only to the unassailable argument of Allied military might.

President Bill Clinton did not seek formal congressional approval before commiting the U.S. to war. Neither he nor Jacques Chirac nor Gerhard Schroeder sought permission from the UN Security Council. They acted without an official UN mandate.

Serbia never directly attacked any of the countries that staged the relentless offensive. The U.S. did not drop bombs to defend itself. The campaign failed several of the tests associated with the doctrine of the so-called "just war". Demonstrators did not take to the streets to say that war never accomplishes anything, that malignant violence cannot be met with countervailing violence, that the United States has no business pursuing regime change.

Slobo is a nasty piece of work.

Saddam is worse.

Truer words have never been spoken. The liberal anti-war movement is hypocritical and selective. War is only evil when a Republican president pursues it, I suppose.

Now more than ever I find no credibility with anti-war people.