Pat Buchanan's Right Again. Dammit.

In Why the Antiwar Democrats Will Retreat, he nails it.

Bush is winning today because he has jettisoned the jabber about global democracy and argues that a U.S. withdrawal risks a strategic disaster, national humiliation, massacre of our friends and triumph for al-Qaida. Democrats, fearing he may be right, are in paralysis.

Scourged for 20 years over Who Lost China? they don't want to spend the next 20 years answering Who Lost the Middle East?

Thus the rout of the peace Democrats. But the movement will be back. For, Petraeus' good news notwithstanding, there is no light yet visible at the end of this tunnel.

Agreeing with Pat tends to give me that icky feeling inside, but sometimes it has to be done.

Fear and Loathing

According to a FOXNews.com PR piece for the batch of thugs and school-yard bullies (with nuclear weapons) currently in power in the good 'ol US of A, our collective hands will soon be even gorier. Considering how well it's worked elsewhere, why not bomb Iran back to the Stone Age? If they don't do what we tell 'em, they deserve what they get.

If we let our current ruling regime get away with this, we deserve what we get.

Our victims don't.

Here's a simple mnemonic for the solution: ICICI.

• Impeach
• Convict
• Indict
• Convict
• Imprison

Repeat as needed.

Murder, war crimes, treason, desertion--no shortage of grounds. Mix and match, or pick a personal favorite.

More Murder On The Way

In:

U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan

From:

FOXNews.com

By:

James Rosen

Man the barricades.

A recent decision by German officials to withhold support for any new sanctions against Iran has pushed a broad spectrum of officials in Washington to develop potential scenarios for a military attack on the Islamic regime, FOX News confirmed Tuesday.

...and...

The Germans voiced concern about the damaging effects any further sanctions on Iran would have on the German economy — and also, according to diplomats from other countries, gave the distinct impression that they would privately welcome, while publicly protesting, an American bombing campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities.

and

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns, the most ardent proponent of a diplomatic resolution to the problem of Iran's nuclear ambitions, has had his chance on the Iranian account and come up empty.

Most relevant parties have concluded such a comprehensive attack plan would require at least a week of sustained bombing runs, and would at best set the Iranian nuclear program back a number of years — but not destroy it forever. Other considerations include the likelihood of Iranian reprisals against Tel Aviv and other Israeli population centers; and the effects on American troops in Iraq. There, officials have concluded that the Iranians are unlikely to do much more damage than they already have been able to inflict through their supply of explosives and training of insurgents in Iraq.

and

Vice President Cheney and his aides are said to be enjoying a bit of "schadenfreude" at the expense of Burns. A source described Cheney's office as effectively gloating to Burns and Rice, We told you so. (The Iranians) are not containable diplomatically. The next shoe to drop will be when Rice and President Bush make a final decision about whether to designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and/or its lethal subset, the Quds Force, as a terrorist entity or entities. FOX News reported in June that such a move is under consideration.