Steyning credulity: Mark Steyn says all's A-OK with Iraq and the thing that some people call its constitution (so ha-ha)

Oh well -- what do you expect from an op/ed columnist who actually writes "ha-ha" in a column dealing with an ongoing war? This guy's not an intellectual heavyweight, that's for sure.

In addition to our intelligence, Steyn manages to insult women, gays, and anybody who has serious doubts about Operation Noble Cause -- the latter being accused of delighting in "the kinkily gleeful relish of defeatism."

Now, how did Steyn know that my car sports a bumpersticker reading: "Caution: Kinkily gleeful relisher of defeatism on board"?

Ever so breezily, Steyn informs us that the Iraqi constitution as written is just what we would have written ourselves.

If you'd been asked in 2003 to devise an ideal constitution for Iraq's very non-ideal circumstances, it would look something like this: a highly decentralized federation that accepts the reality that Iraq is a Muslim nation but reserves political power for elected legislators -- and divides the oil revenue fairly.

Really? It's just so hard to say.

Hard to say because, way back in 2003, most of us were more concerned with Saddam's imminent use of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons of mass destruction than with theorizing about what a new Iraqi constitution might look like.

I think most Americans would agree: It's difficult to grapple with the relative advantages and drawbacks of federalism when you're wrapping your house in plastic and duct tape and buying facemask/respirator combos.