I've been critical of Kristof in the past, and I did read his most recent column in the Times and thought about commenting here but then figured, why bother. His stuff is so consistently lame and riddled with reasoning-holes that I decided instead of making a regular practice of commenting, to instead just let it go.

That said, Kevin Drum took the time to comment. He says much of what I objected to, though there's more to be said, but Kevin likely figured the same: why bother.