Andrew Sullivan not making any sense

Big surprise, I know.

Anyway, in the process of admitting that one of the reasons that he supported the war in Iraq was because he hates hippies (no, seriously) Sullivan tosses in this little nugget,

As a child of the Cold War, and a proud Reaganite and Thatcherite, I regarded 1989 as almost eternal proof of the notion that the walls of tyranny could fall if we had the will to bring them down and the gumption to use military power when we could.

What in God's name is he blathering about? What part of Cold War does he not understand? It's not as if the Berlin Wall came crumbling down because we invaded East Berlin. It's not as though the Soviet Union collapsed because we invaded and marched on Moscow. The times we did take on Soviet "proxies" in hot conflicts during the Cold War were in Korea and Vietnam - how did those work out? Vietnam was an outright defeat and a national embarrassment. Korea was essentially a stalemate and 55 years later nothing has been resolved, we're still there and the Koreas are still technically at war.

Somehow Sullivan has convinced himself that a 45 year strategy of containment, limited diplomatic engagement and 2 hot conflict missteps demonstrated that the U.S. should use military power to bring down Saddam Hussein. It's stunning for it's shear idiocy.