Instapundit linked up this interesting interview with Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Uprising of 1943. In it, he takes on the current "conventional wisdom" so passionately held by certain members of the peanut gallery, with bona-fides that are unquestionable:

Interviewer: So this war is one over some silly beliefs?

Edelman: Now, now. Who started killing people? Americans didn't invade a wonderful democratic Iraq. There was a dictatorship there, torture, terror.

Interviewer: But there are people who say it's not our business.

Edelman: And whose business is it? Every war with fascism is our business. In 1939 there were also many people who said that the war in Poland was not their war, and what happened? Great nations fell because politicians listened to those who were saying that it's not worth dying for Gdansk [Danzig]. If only we'd intervened militarily after Hitler re-entered Rhineland we probably would not have had the war and the Holocaust.

As always, read the whole thing before you start yelling, "cheerleader!"