RON ROSENBAUM has explicitly joined the anti-Idiotarian cause. And he’s done it, of course, in response to what he’s heard from the anti-war movement, such as it is:

The point is, all empires commit crimes; in the past century, ours were by far the lesser of evils. But this sedulous denial of even the possibility of misjudgment in the hierarchy of evils protects and insulates this wing of the Left from an inconvenient reconsideration of whether America actually is the worst force on the planet. This blind spot, this stunning lack of historical perspective, robs much of the American Left of intellectual credibility. And makes it easy for idiocies large and small to be uttered reflexively. (Perhaps the suggestion I recently saw on the Instapundit.com Web site calling for an “Anti-Idiotarian” party might be appropriate.)

Being anti-War, as I’ve said repeatedly, doesn’t make you an idiot. But the antiwar movement certainly has taken a strong position in the idiocy market, as Rosenbaum’s report makes clear.

UPDATE: Read this report too. And Donald Sensing has some observations.