Try Saddam or Scowcroft #2?

Three days ago, discussing how he criticizes Bush for Iraq, I wrote about how much "Brent Scowcroft, and his fellow moral myopics, also have much to answer for." The U.S. policies that Scowcroft guided in 1991 stopped short of Baghdad, of sense and of elemental decency.

Today, Charles Krauthammer weighs in, as only he can, on Scowcroft. Krauthammer concludes of Scowcroft becoming a Cindy Sheehan stand-in, "It is not surprising that Scowcroft, who helped give indecency a 12-year life extension, should disdain decency's return [in Iraq]. But we should not." Scowcroft is described as "unmoved by the stirrings of democracy movements in the Middle East." With Krauthammer, it's always well worth it to read the whole thing.

After I wrote my column three days ago, a reader asked in what branch of service Scowcroft served as a general. I replied Air Force. The reader, an Air Force veteran, responded, "Oh, in the clouds." Unfortunately, those earthbound who Scowcroft abandons to tyrannies can't so easily fly away.