But I expect most of you already knew that.
Today's evidence is a column published today in the San Francisco Chronicle. The first line is the giveaway.
If you set aside the war in Iraq, terrorism has in fact gone way down over the past five years.
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And of course, if you set aside the war in Iraq, 4000+ troops have not been killed, we haven't spent hundreds of billions in borrowed money, and President Bush is a genius.
Those inconvenient facts and annoying statistics can be set them aside in pursuit of a lofty realpolitikal goal.
Zakaria explains that the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed in the last few years during our occupation of their country don't count as victims, because it is a "war zone." By redefining their deaths, he has made them feel so much better, I'm sure.
Read it and weep. This is the compassion of a conservative.
You're all smart, and I don't need to expound further. The evidence is in. Zakaria is a moron, and the newspapers still waste paper and ink on him.