Military Necessity Does Not Admit of Cruelty

Nothing radical or leftist about identifying the moral disgrace of George W. Bush or defining his actions as criminal. Hell, he’s admitted it anyway, so…let’s call it what it is. The rule of law does not bow to one man.

One moment he might be holding forth to a great perspiring tent at Hay-on-Wye. The next moment, click, some embarrassed member of the Welsh constabulary could walk on stage, place some handcuffs on the former leader of the Free World, and take him away to be charged.

That’s the honorable Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, imagining the possibilities if Bush came to Europe on his book tour. Damn right. The Booze Cabinet maintains its position, held for lo these many years, that Bush is indeed a war criminal in need of handcuffing. History will bear us out.