THE DSM

That’s the acronym the lefty blogosphere now uses for the Downing Street Memo. Kinsley’s right, though, as usual. All the memo shows is one individual’s take on what was going on in Washington. It was also my take and the take of lots of journalists and observers. It proves nothing but that senior figures in Downing Street believed that the war was inevitable, unsellable to the British public and that there was almost no post-war planning. I guess it is slightly amazing that any senior government official can get three things right. But I’m underwhelmed.