Not that I expect Scarborough to be any less of a gasbag than he is, but he’s got a column at Politico calling the “American Left” hypocrites for cheering the intervention in Libya after all those years of complaining about Dubya’s Iraq Adventure.

America invaded its third Muslim country in a decade. The American left meekly went along. Without the slightest hint of irony, liberals defended the president’s indefensible position by returning again to a pose of moral certainty.

Democrats streamed to the floors of the House and Senate to praise the president for invading Libya. It was, after all, a moral mission that would stop the slaughter of innocent civilians. Whether protesting for peace or calling for war, these liberals once again convinced themselves of the moral superiority of their positions.

Strictly speaking, I don’t think the Libyan intervention meets the literal definition of “invasion,” and even if it does, it’s not “America’s invasion,” IMO. There seems to be genuine and spontaneous international consensus that Qaddafi must go now. Further, the reaction on the Left has ranged mostly from suspended judgment to extreme discomfort to outright opposition. And a number of Democrats in the House, at least, have been openly critical of it.

The only “leftie” (I assume) blogger I can think of who genuinely supports the intervention is Juan Cole. And he wrote an open letter to the Left on Libya, chiding lefties for not appreciating the merits of the intervention.

And who doesn’t remember the moral smugness of those who urged us to charge into Iraq because Saddam Hussein was a bad man who was “gassing his own people” (15 years earlier)? Anyone who voiced caution was shouted down for not caring enough about the suffering of oppressed Iraqis. I’m sure if we looked around we could find some videos of Scarborough in morally smug mode back then.

That said — the most worrisome thing about President Obama’s speech last night may be that Bill Kristol liked it. Be afraid.

But Kristol seems to think the speech shows that President Obama has changed his mind on the use of military force, somehow. If you saw Maddow last night, you saw her explain that everything he said in his speech was consistent with what he’s said in the past about military intervention.

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The real flip-flopping, of course, is on the Right, which has suddenly noticed that wars cost a lot of money and kill people.