Chris Matthews is a god-awful interviewer, but in the few seconds he let former Bushevik Richard Haass speak he offered an interesting explanation for Bush's decision to invade Iraq: that invading Afghanistan was too easy and Bush wanted to "make a bigger statement" and "change history."

Of course Matthews didn't ask Haass about Cheney's passion for oil, or the Neocons' passion for U.S. bases in the heart of the Middle East. Hopefully we'll see better interviews with Haass, ideally by smart Stanford students or 4th graders.