GEORGE WILL,

WAR POET:

Soon the bow wave created by the movement of the great ship America into full-scale war will wash away Lilliputian nuisances, such as French diplomacy.

Thanks to Jim Joyner at Outside the Beltway for the link. I'm not sure I like this paragraph as much as he does, though! I don't know if Will is trying to evoke an image of "gunboat diplomacy" or U.S. imperialism, but he sure as heck is succeeding. (BTW, thanks to OTB for the recent plug, as well!)

GEORGE WILL, APOLOGIZER

And at the bottom of the page, Will corrects an error in his Estrada editorial. No, he doesn't admit that he defended the filibuster when Republicans were using it, or that he defended Republican attempts to torpedo Bill Lan Lee's nomination for "political payback" (narrow interpretation of "advice and consent"?), or that he attacked Bill Clinton for thinking of nominating an Hispanic to the Supreme Court, but while Bush is openly pushing the idea, he (Will) says nothing.

Here is Will's correction:

THIS COLUMN recently erroneously stated that Thurgood Marshall had no judicial experience when appointed to the Supreme Court. Marshall had served on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, to which he was appointed with no judicial experience.

Everyone makes factual mistakes. Good for Will to admit them. Probably it's more important to admit that he is advancing a view that he now claims is constitutionally grounded, but that he earlier rejected this view when his party would have been hurt by those arguments. Oh well. Maybe next time.