New Conventional Wisdom: Iraq the Greatest Error in U.S. History

Just wanted to register the fact that last night on Chris Matthews, former Oklahoma Sen. David Boren, now in Obama's foreign policy kitchen, described Iraq as the greatest mistake in American history. Don't have the quote. Someone else said the same thing the other day. Forget who. But note that Iraq used to be merely the worst foreign policy mistake of the last 40 years, or post-Vietnam, or some such. Which remains my opinion. The latest seems hyperbolic, but a good sign for those of us who long to hear the tumbrils rumbling thru the streets of Georgetown…