It seems we're again peeling back another layer of the 'liberal hawks' question. Todd Gitlin has a post I heartily recommend to you about the Times Mag's piece on Kanan Makiya, the Iraqi emigre intellectual who was so much grease on the slope into the abyss.

And from the article itself, if you're familiar with Fouad Ajami -- he on Chalabi -- “Persuading the Americans to take down Saddam was Chalabi’s finest hour.”

Finest hour? How many hours does he have? Is there anything else of note or consequence he's responsible for save for this catastrophe? I'm not sure Ajami's come up with something that good since he called on President Bush to pardon Scooter Libby to honor the principle that a fallen soldier should never be left behind on the battlefield.