David Remnick makes the sane liberal case for taking Saddam’s threat seriously in the New Yorker. And Fareed Zakaria waxes optimistic in Newsweek. They both make excellent points. Fareed avoids the condescension toward Bush. (But then if Remnick didn’t condescend to Bush, his readers probably wouldn’t even begin to listen.)
MTV AGAINST THE WAR: Yep, in Germany, they’re running PSAs from pop-stars in defense of Saddam. Moby, whose music I love, is particularly dumb. But why is MTV adopting a controversial political stand under the slogan “War Is Not The Answer”? Isn’t it even supposed to pretend to be neutral?
The Dish 