Good comment at Brad DeLong's

Jonah Goldberg quoted this in a column the other day, then bitched that the rich liberals of Martha's Vineyard were trying to get special protection for their view out to sea - that Teddy Kennedy et al. were for wind power, unless the windmills were off the coast of the Vineyard.

But Teddy's got a point. There are lots of places to put windmills, and few of them ruin the scenery. Last week, I was in Glacier National Park, and I can tell you that the wind really whistles through the passes in the Continental Divide there. From a utilitarian perspective, those passes might be great places for windmills, but fortunately, we realize that life isn't solely about utility, so we don't put windmills in Logan Pass or in the Grinnell Glacier Overlook.

Besides, keeping a few scenic places free of windmills doesn't undermine the overall supply of wind power in the United States. The hypocrisy of Goldberg and his fan club - supporting the war but being unwilling to fight it - in fact undermines whatever minimal likelihood of 'success' (however one would define it) there might be through 'staying the course' in Iraq. There's a big difference.