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Blind Peace: A Postscript to the Iraq War

1. One of the few real joys that history provides is the end of a tyrant, and it is all the same whether he loses his power or his life. The toppling of his statues and the destruction of his pictures symbolize this moment. Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Pinochet, Ceausescu, Mobutu, Milosevic, Sadam—the list is endless. The end of Castro, Mugabe, Kim Jong II and a dozen others is foreseeable; every day they continue to rule costs human lives.

The triumphal joy that one feels when one of these figures bites the dust stems from the fact that one has survived...