A lot of thoughtful conservatives have had to eat crow for supporting the Iraq War, famously fomented with tales of Sadaam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. I’ve felt pretty smug because my feelings were “I suppose Dubya’s got to kill somebody after the twin towers, but ‘humbler foreign policy’ is why I voted for him.”

Now, I almost got sucked into this year’s version, guiltily half-hoping that we’d drop a bunker-buster on Iran’s deeply-subterranean centrifuge enrichment facility. Not so fast, says Ray McGovern:

Just to be clear. Since 2007, US Intelligence high-confidence judgment: Iran NOT working on nuclear weapon. Wm Burns expressed “reasonable confidence the US would detect such work relatively early on.” Ergo, “unconditional surrender” is about REGIME CHANGE. nbcnews.com/investiga…