Well, not me per se, but people like me who don’t think Chait pulls off the Swiftian heights of brilliance Reihan takes as self-evident. Reihan’s ode to Chait fails on two basic levels (Unless Reihan is himself too deftly employing sarcasm; he suggests Chait’s the best or second best columnist in America). First, if Chait’s only kidding or being sarcastic, ironic, or some other flavor of clever (which I still hope he is), it doesn’t really come across that way. Second, Chait’s alleged point that we have no good options in Iraq is hardly a penetrating and novel insight. I don’t mean that as a slight to Chait since it happens to be the truth, but it’s hardly like he’s the first to say we have no good options in Iraq. Even Kofi Anan said the same thing last week. I’m a big fan of sarcasm and irony in columns and I’ve used it often myself (and often with very limited — as in zero — success), but Reihan would blame the readers for not getting it. I think blame resides elsewhere. If you’re going to joke around about something so morally and intellectually unserious as restoring Saddam to power, maybe your point should be something more profound than a staple of run-of-the-mill punditry?