WARS ARE BAD.

WARS ARE BAD. David Ignatius gets smart and eloquent:

There's fear within the administration that this sort of American peacemaking will further traumatize the Israelis in the painful aftermath of the Lebanon conflict. But the best way to keep faith with Olmert is to build on the premise that led him to resist the generals' demands for a wider war: The way out of the Middle East mess is through political agreements, not unilateral moves or quixotic military campaigns. Iran and its proxies have been marking one bloody path to the future; America and its allies must work urgently to construct an alternative.

This is all true. It is, however, worth pointing out that it's hardly only "Iran and its proxies" who've been marking bloody paths to the future. The United States of America and, specifically, the Bush administration also marked out a bloody path with the invasion of Iraq. It's high time that we get off that path and onto a better one.

--Matthew Yglesias