If Iranians Don’t Cooperate, I’ll Shoot Myself In the Other Foot
Does this seem like just too large a helping of deja-vu, or is it just me?
Here we are in the midst of an un-winnable as well as un-leaveable war with Iraq over WMD that never showed up and George is threatening to attack Iran because of WMD that isn’t proven. The president apparently “views Tehran as a serious menace that must be dealt with before his presidency ends.”
I have a remedy for that. Pre-empt another foolish Middle Eastern venture by ending his presidency now.
Right in the middle of The Masters, with Tiger five strokes behind and a rain delay, my country is about to actually contemplate another adventure in the desert. Talk about a sand-trap.
Opening my Sunday Washington Post, 2nd cup of coffee in hand, U.S. Is Studying Military Strike Options on Iran greets my eye. I blink. This one took three staffers, Peter Baker, Dafna Linzer and Thomas Ricks to lay it on the line. I scan the paper for news of riots in the streets, effigies of Rumsfeld and Cheney, but there are none. All i…