Posted 1:25 PM by Gene

I think I know why I find it difficult to get worked up over a lot of things that foam the InstaPundit Army into a lather: much of their talk (or as they'd no doubt say, nearly every "issue") surrounds things that require but a nod of the head, or that need the kind of wonkish specialized knowledge few people care to acquire, or that are hypotheticals and never come to pass, or that become debates with people who don't have anything to debate. I suppose there are fifty different ways, for instance, to disarm Iraq, and the electronic pundits go through them in excruciating detail, but ultimately the "issue" comes down to three questions: does Saddam want to disarm (answer: we don't know, though the best educated guess is no), can the UN get Saddam to disarm (answer: most likely no), and can we succeed at toppling Saddam's regime (answer: most likely yes, but the true answer is beyond the realm of certainties)? I admit I don't know anthrax from ricin from mustard gas, but I do know Saddam's not a nice guy, and it doesn't take advanced degrees to figure that one out. But (so they say) we need the InstaPundit Army. Hup! Two!