The neocons who got us into the disastrous mess in Iraq—which some argue has left the US far more damaged than Vietnam did—are finally starting to concede that they were wrong. Those who will speak at all, rather than slink back into the shadows. Rupert Cornwell’s report quotes Francis Fukuyama, the most prominent neocon intellectual: “Leninism was a tragedy in its Bolshevik version, and it has returned as farce when practiced by the United States.”

Very elegant. Me, I’d put it in the language of Cheech and Chong: ”Sorry, man. I fucked up.”

The joke’s on us, though. Us, and tens of thousands of dead Iraqis and Americans. And don’t forget Poland!