Almost under the radar, the neocons are doing it again: setting us up for yet another can’t win military adventure in the Middle East, this time against the much tougher Iran, into which we will be dragged by the Israeli tail that keeps wagging the American dog.
Amazingly enough, we will once again be led into war by people claiming that a regime has nukes when, at least based on the evidence available, said regime does not, in fact, have nukes and all the people pushing toward war are once again pitting their own fevered fantasies against the best intelligence.
This may be Obama’s supreme test. If Netanyahu attacks Israel, he will come under tremendous pressure to join in. If he does, he will commit us to a war that will cost far more in lives and treasure than the Iraqi adventure, with longer lasting negative consequences.
It will be sickeningly interesting to see if the punditocracy and media once again mindlessly amplify the war drums-once again ignore the protests- and once again marginalize the well informed naysayers. If they do, then perhaps we can truly say that, as the right wing has so often proclaimed we must, we have unlearned the lessons of Vietnam, and the far more recent lessons of Iraq.
This might all be avoided, of course, if Obama simply agreed to attack, the sole condition being that William Kristol and Joe Lieberman’s be the first feet on the ground.
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