Sunday, April 16, 2006
A lose-lose situation
Richard Clarke and Steven Simon, respectively, national coordinator for security and counterterrorism and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, have an Op-Ed piece in the NY Times today about the War in Iran being planned by Our Dear Embattled Leader and his minions. Beginning with a rundown of what is happening, they run through several likely scenarios. When all is said and done they come to the only conclusion that a sane person could reach.
And the moon is made of green cheese.
So how would bombing Iran serve American interests? In over a decade of looking at the question, no one has ever been able to provide a persuasive answer. The president assures us he will seek a diplomatic solution to the Iranian crisis. And there is a role for threats of force to back up diplomacy and help concentrate the minds of our allies. But the current level of activity in the Pentagon suggests more than just standard contingency planning or tactical saber-rattling.But that conclusion assumes you are dealing with people who let themselves be influenced by reality. With ODEL and his minions the Agenda is everything, it is their reality. And if the Agenda calls for an attack on Iran then America must have the will to carry it through and God will make all things right.
The parallels to the run-up to to war with Iraq are all too striking: remember that in May 2002 President Bush declared that there was "no war plan on my desk" despite having actually spent months working on detailed plans for the Iraq invasion. Congress did not ask the hard questions then. It must not permit the administration to launch another war whose outcome cannot be known, or worse, known all too well.
And the moon is made of green cheese.
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