Quote of the Day

No. The core of your support for the war was a moral failure. A guy who murders his wife doesn’t get to hide behind a claim about bad analysis after he discovers that she wasn’t in fact screwing the mailman. Oh, you invented an imaginary war to support? That isn’t bad analysis. It’s a crime. 

—Jacob Bacharach on Ezra Klein's excuse for supporting the Iraq War

Ezra Klein claims that he has imagined some sort of benevolent occupation that would have made Iraq a better place.

That still makes him criminally wrong.

Mr. Bacharach argues that this admission of error is a humbug, and instead was a choice made in the interest of furthering his career.

I would argue that Klein's whole Abundance agenda, which is to f%$# minorities, let monopolists run wild, and roll back zoning regulations, is another similar exercise in careerism.