Delusional Safire is, thankfully, retiring

Safire's piece in the NYT today lays out a Philip Roth Plot Against America-style scenario (damn good book, btw) where Bush doesn't attack Iraq, Saddam becomes a powerful regional dictator, and the Western world is screwed. It's pretty demented. I'm glad the old coot is leaving his crappy political column and sticking to his much better weekly articles on etymology.

Here's a locally stored link to a copy of the article for when the Times turns it into a pay article.