After 9/11, the gloves were off. The far left beseeched the government to retaliate with, at most, a proportionate response, but no one cared. We toppled the Taliban as a warm-up act. Terrorists weren’t criminals anymore, they were enemy combatants, ineligible for the Geneva Conventions.

Given all the horrible and stupid things that came of that decision, it’s dismaying that Jonah would cite it so approvingly.