Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
No kidding.
Spencer Ackerman on John Bolton’s General Ripper-esque obsession with bombing Iran (h/t, Steve Benen):
Yes, the Israeli bombs will only kill the bad Iranians. When patriotic Iranians of the opposition see Israeli F-16s raining death from above on Iranian targets, Bolton actually expects them to think, “Boom shack-a-lacka! Here come our Israeli liberators! Let them bomb whatever they like, since even though Mir Hussein Moussavi supports a nuclear program as part of a consensus opinion, I believe Israeli propaganda that says it has our best interests at heart! That’ll show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! Did you hear that, Aunt Marjam? Aunt Marjam…?”
If there’s one thing that a Bush official should understand, it’s that people under attack from a foreign enemy don’t rush to embrace their more moderate leaders.
But Spencer, we Americans are superior to everyone else because unlike the rest of the heathen scum world, we embraced our moderate leaders after 9/11. Oh wait, we didn’t.
