Lawrence Kaplan, a senior editor at The New Republic

and a big cheerleader for the US invasion of Iraq, smiled

a lot back in 2003. Unsmilingly, in 2006 he argues that

we now have a moral obligation "to repair what the United

States has smashed." So: in retrospect, it was immoral to

invade Iraq, and in prospect, it would be immoral to uninvade

Iraq. In short, Lawrence Kaplan is asking more people to die

and more money to be spent to keep him from sinking further

into his own immoral quagmire. Wouldn't it be better to just let

him sink out of sight? And the quicker, the better?