Andy’s article on whether a President McCain would have gone to war to overthrow the Ba’athist regime in Iraq is interesting. One footnote I would add: McCarthy mentions that McCain went from opposing military intervention in Bosnia in 1993 to supporting it in 1996, suggesting that it was the fact of the intervention, initiated by someone else (Clinton), that swung him in favor. But McCain had by then for at least two years advocated lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia, which may have paved the way for his switch. Also, it is right to say that McCain’s advisers include a lot of “realists” and early opponents of the Iraq war. But they also include a lot of neoconservatives and advocates of that war. I think the breadth of the advice he gets is a good thing, as I tend to fall somewhere between the realist and neocon camps myself.