Jay Nordlinger on NRO

Jay Nordlinger's "Impromptus" are some of my favorite reads on NRO. They're usually witty, intelligent, and relevant.

Today, he really nails it on one of his observations:

I will give you something slightly sappy: I am not only supportive of George Bush, Tony Blair, and the rest; I am not only proud of them; I'm grateful to them. I actually think they're making me and my loved ones safer - by dealing with a menace that would only grow worse. We at National Review were maybe three miles from the World Trade Center, where 3,000 people were murdered in cold blood. We were lucky. Multitudes weren't.

And this is an administration that is actually doing something about it. And Bush & Co. will not, I believe, stop.

Thing is, they'll never get full credit: because history will never know what Saddam Hussein would have done had he been allowed to stand. This is one of the difficulties of "preemptive war." Everyone knows what Hitler did, by 1945. But if he had been dealt with in, say, 1938, how many would say that the anti-Hitler powers had overreacted and overstepped their bounds?

This sums up much of my own opinion about not only our leaders, but about the war in general. As always, Jay Nordlinger is well worth the time.

Read Jay's "Impromptus."