Alter writes: “Someday, when Iraq is peaceful again (and that day will come), tourists will want to see the square where the Saddam statue toppled, the spider hole he hid in and, of course, Abu Ghraib Prison.”

Isn’t this a lovely encapsulation of the “give peace a chance” crowd’s definition of “peace”? When does Alter think Iraq was peaceful? When the hundreds of thousands of Saddam’s victims weren’t on TV and so therefore weren’t being killed?