Ed Luttwak may have panicked on Iraq, but I was always there for Bush, arguing the correctness of the cause — at bars knocking back cold ones and in the booth at Micky D’s sipping hot ones, quietly comforting and encouraging the home front. Even here at the Belmont Club. No. No. No thanks needed.

Whenever I really wanted to irritate my liberal friends I’d tell them, “Keep running down George Bush. In twenty years they’ll give someone a Pulitzer for writing a revisionist history saying how great he was.” Perhaps Ed wants to get his paddle in early.