Day 1471

Still talking

Condoleezza Rice is back on television, offering analysis of America’s latest military decisions — in conversation with Bret Baier, a man who has recently appointed himself a Middle East expert. Before that he was a Ukraine expert.

I watched her carefully, though if you go there, carry with you the image of Ann Coulter — who was beating the Iraq war drum just as loudly in 2003 and is today 100,000 pages into the Epstein files.

Rice was National Security Advisor when the United States launched Operation Iraqi Freedom — a war built on fabricated certainties. This was not just an unfortunate miscalculation. It was a years-long catastrophe measured in bodies: approximately 200,000 Iraqi civilians killed, 4,492 American service members dead, and at least $1 trillion spent directly on the war. The region has never recovered.

Rice was not a peripheral figure. She was in the room. She helped assemble and defend the bogus argument for launching that military misadventure. Today she is Director of…