How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran

I appreciate the caveat Majestic and my comments are directed to this Pipes moron only and I have no gripes with the site for posting it (although really, is it that hard to find a neocon who says things like this? how novel and newsworthy is it?).

It would be easier than knocking a buzzard off a sh-t wagon to criticize what Pipes says so I'll ignore the obvious critiques. So my first comment is, Pipes, are you seriously suggesting with our military stretched thin in two war fronts, we should involve ourselves in another front? The Bush doctrine has, at least at this point, been proven to be atrocious. It balloons our debt, the military solutions have been dubious at best and can be used as an excuse to attack anyone for any reason. AND there clearly is no repercussions to the so called 'leadership' for dragging a country into an illegal war. There's so many flaws in interacting with other countries this way as to be laughable and talk like this is dangerous and completely retarded. It's truly psychotic thinking and a menace to the spirit of what this country was founded on. These people need to be either A. in jail for actions taken based on this disturbing and faulty approach or B. locked away somewhere so that they can't harm this country anymore.

The fact that people like Pipes, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bush and the pundits that support the neocon perspective get their diseased philosophy heard and considered on an equal playing field as more thoughtful, rational and reasonable perspectives…..and are given equal weight by the bought and sold media outlets is truly a symptom of country in decline. If we continue going down this road without resolving this dissonance of mental and spiritual clarity, it is hard to imagine this country and possibly the world, improving.

I've got no gripes with posting this point of view either. Just have my own caveat that if a perspective this daft is posted, it can also be expected to be shredded for the dumbass idea that it is.

FYI, the Hoover Institution is a rightwing “think”tank that also engages in wonderful activities like shilling for the tobacco lobby and the oil industry, so if some dude is a “fellow” there, you should probably take his views with a grain of salt, as it basically means he's a corporate whore. And a whore for the worst kind of corporations.

He also has membership in the Anti-Islamic Institute. So as one writer for Common Dreams put it, “He's basically a bigot disguised as a scholar.”

I would amend that to simply say he's a bigot who hates scholars, as he's also a founder of the rightwing fringe group “Campus Watch” that seeks to harass college professors that say things that he doesn't agree with, and silence liberal dissent on college campuses, while promoting far right views. So the truth of the matter is he's a threat to academic freedom too.

And he's pretty stupid when it comes to military tactics, because the terrain ALONE in Iran is a giant ass-kicker for any invading army. Not to mention the simple fact that WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY to invade somebody else, you douchebag.

> First, U.S. intelligence agencies have reversed their preposterous 2007 National Intelligence Estimate

What's the source for this assertion? As far as I can remember, the most recent statements on the contrary confirmed the 2007 assessment and still (end 2009/early 2010) conclude that Iran has no nuclear weapons program and no intentions of starting one (despite *words* to the contrary, which do not a nuclear program make).