Mark Steyn: My visit with the President

Typically great article, but written before the election:

There's something faintly unbecoming about the terms in which the Iraq debate is conducted. News anchors talk about whether people are "for" or "against" the war, as if the citizenry are Olympic skating judges awarding marks to some prancing ninnies out on the ice. Whether we (i.e. the Western world) know it or not, we're all out on the ice, and it's getting mighty thin in places. Yet this demeaning, immature conception of war as a reality show you're bored with is said to be the key factor in polls showing big Democrat gains in Tuesday's elections.