What will it take to get the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel to drop Jonah Goldberg’s column? I suppose it’s too much to hope for some sort of on-air slip that makes advertisers flee in droves.

Just as the problem with “Mallard Fillmore” is not that it’s conservative, it’s that it isn’t funny, the problem with Mr. Legacy Pundit’s column isn’t that it’s conservative, it’s that it’s mind-bendingly stupid.

It was today’s column about taking sides in a civil war that provoked this rant. Of course there are times when it makes sense to take sides in a civil war, when there are clear good guys and bad guys, and anyone who says otherwise is being either disingenuous or historically forgetful.

However, the question is whether it makes sense to take sides in Iraq’s civil war. Who are the good guys, and who the bad? Jonah doesn’t even suggest whom he sees as the heroes. In fact, he himself points up the problem when he says, in his next-to-last paragraph, “… the 21st [century] will be a lot more ugly if Sunni Salafists or Iranian pawns win in Iraq.”

But aren’t those essentially the two competing sides? Sure, there are (dwindling numbers of) Sunni and Shiite moderates, as well as lots of people who don’t give a damn about politics but just want to live in peace and safety. But they’re not the ones with the mortars and bombs.

Jonah doesn’t think he needs to figure all this out. All he’s interested in is trying to prove liberals are hypocritical for not wanting to take sides in Iraq when they want to take sides in Darfur. And, as usual, he only proves how limited his own brainpower is.

There are intelligent conservatives out there. Why, oh, why, must the J-S keep running this dreck?