• Raúl Castro, after meeting with Pope Francis in the Vatican, said he might very well “go back to the Church.” That will be one long confession.
• Jeb Bush got tripped up on a question about Iraq. Asked by Megyn Kelly if he would have authorized the invasion of Iraq given what we know now, Bush said absolutely, and Hillary Clinton would have as well. The political and media world promptly crashed down around his head for his purportedly pigheaded, tone-deaf backing of the war. As Bush explained afterwards, he misinterpreted the question and gave an answer based on what we knew in 2003 (when, indeed, many prominent Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, voted to authorize the war). Bush dismissed the question Kelly had really asked as a hypothetical. This is all a bit of a tangle, but clearly, if we had known with certainty in 2003 that Saddam wasn’t close to having functional weapons of mass destruction, we never would have invaded. The world doesn’t run on counterfactuals, though (if we knew then what we know today, we also would have implemented the surge years earlier and never would have pulled out of Iraq entirely). Perhaps Governor Bush should say that the next time he gets this question — because he can be sure there will be a next time.
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