His piece, though, contains the argument that certain authoritarian régimes, less horrid than Saddam’s, such as, say, Mubarak’s, are a sounder alternative to missionary democracy in some parts of the world.

In this regard, Kramer has a point. He’s still a realist interventionist, seemingly, wanting to help prop up the Mubaraks of the world, but on a derangement scale his rating can’t go as high as that of the grotesque Muravichick or The Decider.