PowerLine at it Again

A few days ago, the boys over at PowerLine pointed to comments made by some prominent Democrats suggesting that President Bush's post-9/11 policies were at least in part responsible for the unrest currently engulfing the Middle East as evidence of just how shameless and partisan Democrats have ostensibly become. "In terms of the style of its propaganda, this is a party in which Joseph Goebbels would feel at home," remarked Paul Mirengoff.

Fortunately, not all conservatives have succumbed to the kind of delusional musings typical of the likes of Mirengoff. Writing in today's Washington Post, conservative columnist George Will notes the following:

"Grotesque" was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's characterization of the charge that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was responsible for the current Middle East conflagration. She is correct, up to a point. This point: Hezbollah and Hamas were alive and toxic long before March 2003. Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson -- one that conservatives should not have to learn on the job -- about the limits of power to subdue an unruly world, has emboldened many enemies.

Who knew that Will was such a fan of Goebbels!