The Blog  A Laboratory for Conservatism?  Some liberals are
desperate to paint post-war Iraq as conservatism's nirvana. The
operative word here is "desperate."  12:00 AM, Jun 10, 2003 • By
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Smaller Text Alerts  NOW THAT MATTERS IN POSTWAR IRAQ have, to
put it mildly, become challenging, antiwar liberals are
exhibiting a new spring in their step, and a revivified
eagerness to heap scorn on the Bush administration.  One of the
most bizarre examples of this appears in the June 9 issue of the
New Yorker, in a truly unhinged "Talk of the Town" column by
Hendrik Hertzberg. The article, "Building Nations," begins with
a description of the "catastrophe" that is postwar Iraq--a
"Hobbesian state of nature" lacking water, phones, and electric
power, and full of environmental degradation and rampant crime.
But Hertzberg isn't content to make the (defensible) argument
that Iraq's current troubles result from incompetent American
planning; instead, the blame lies wi