Aside from the moral twaddle, one wonders who Matthews thinks is to blame for the lack of a robust discussion. Since 9/11 Matthews has been ominpresent on TV. For a while there he was hosting the news, doing shows back to back and a couple years ago he got that show on broadcast NBC. He’s a major player in the editorial decisions at MSNBC as well. So if we lacked a robust discussion — which isn’t how I remember it by the way — who could possibly be more to blame than Matthews himself?

Also, if you read the piece Rich links to, Matthews cites only three factors which lead to war. The “father-son relatioship with the Bushes,” “the oil thing” and our relationship with Israel. That’s it? Daddy complex, Israel and oil. In other words Matthews can’t even muster the will to offer a single explanation that doesn’t cast Bush in a bad light. Shabby stuff.