Most times I'm amused at how some of the stupidest arguments I've heard are prefaced by some self-righteous lefty telling me how much he or she values 'critical thinking'. Invariably what follows is a series of rather obvious non-sequiturs and other logical fallacies.

Sometimes it just makes me sad. Where are the all the smart people?

Rich Lowry doesn't break a sweat destroying the Democrat's rhetorical underpinnings of support for the lamentable START treaty.

Wright goes as far as to say New START makes it less likely “that North Korea, desperate for cash, would sell nukes to terrorists who could sneak them into the United States and detonate them.” This might be plausible—if New START were a treaty with North Korea. When it comes to the states we worry about, such as North Korea, Iran, and Syria, they have never made decisions about their nuclear-weapons programs on the basis of U.S.-Russian strategic arms-control agreements; it is hard to imagine anything less relevant to their decision making. (Our non-nuclear friends, on the other hand, worry that the administration’s arms-control agenda, with New START as the first step, could reduce the credibility of our nuclear umbrella and force them to begin to re-think their own nuclear options.)

Robert Wright is so stupid he should be institutionalized.