Well it was long... I am sad to say that the following is my impatient and lazy point by point thrashing (in lieu of an actual article) of Fred Kagan from the American Empire Institute and the stupid lies that he puked up on a recent page of the Weekly Standard. A friend of mine says that someone he cares very much about found Kagan's essay incredible and irrefutable. I find that laughable, but not very funny. Sorry for all the cursing and insults below. It was late when I did this... (and for...