I have to agree with Gene Healy’s initial reaction to Gen. Wesley Clark’s entering the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

It’s worse than whether to root for Dean versus Clark, however. The sad fact is that if there’s any debate about Iraq in 2004 it will be about how best to occupy the country, not how best to get the hell out of there ASAP and focus on the real bad guys — you know, the ones who actually had something to do with Sept. 11.

Dubya says Iraq is now “the central front in the war on terror.” Well, it had better be! That’s where all the troops are. It would be a mighty misuse of military resources if it weren’t. You probably won’t hear anything like that argument from Clark or any of the other Democratic dwarfs for president.