I’ve been pretty rough on Joe Klein over the years, so I want to pause to praise him for his latest article, which concludes with this heartfelt apology:

As for myself, I deeply regret that once, on television in the days before the [Iraq] war, I foolishly — spontaneously — said that going ahead with the invasion might be the right thing to do. I was far more skeptical in print. I never wrote in favor of the war and repeatedly raised the problems that would accompany it, but mere skepticism was an insufficient reaction too. The issue then was as clear as it is now. It demanded a clarity that I failed to summon. The essential principle is immutable: we should never go to war unless we have been attacked or are under direct, immediate threat of attack. Never. And never again.

There are dozens of other pundits who we’re still waiting to hear apologize, but now we can strike Joe Klein off that list.

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