THOUGHTS ON MARK STEYN AND FEARLESSNESS from Dean Barnett.

Calling a guy who has lunched solo in Ramadi since the invasion chicken seems a bit much to me, but hey, whatever. The antiwar left’s efforts to bolster its macho credentials are always amusingly inept, but they keep trying.

UPDATE: On the Ramadi thing, Barnett adds: “When Greenwald (or even one of his sock-puppets) does the same, then he’ll have more solid ground to stand on when questioning another’s manliness.”

I’m waiting for “Ellison in Mosul”!

But as I’ve noted before, there’s a difference between political and physical courage. But, really, the political coward’s way out for Steyn would be to renounce his pro-war stance, knowing that he’d suddenly be lionized by lefties as a “true conservative” and enjoy Strange New Respect for years. Look how well that sort of turnabout has worked for Kevin Phillips!