The Daily Kos seems to think I’m an idiot for relishing the news that Americans are teaching Iraqi kids to play baseball. It’s often a good sign that someone’s preaching to their choir when they think your position is self-evidently wrong (which, of course, it can be). But in this case I don’t get it. Apparently I shouldn’t be jazzed about American soldiers teaching kids to play baseball because things can go wrong like they did in Beirut. I think that’s an absurd “argument.” I use quotation marks because it strikes me more as a brain burp or something.

Of course things can go wrong. How does that make doing good by some Iraqi kids bad? I suppose I could’ve ended my post noting that a car bomb might kill all off the kids and GIs. But, hey, I guess I’m just a rose-colored glasses kind of guy.