Posted by
Bill Crawford on Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:28:27 PM
Just when one party here is busy getting out the message that our presence in the Middle East is as expensive as it is unnecessary, Iran defies all the UN sanctions and starts test firing medium range missiles all around.
Like an old friend of mine likes to say, these people never miss an opportunity....to miss an opportunity.
These people are at war with us. They know it. Too many people here are just not getting that yet.
They want to elect Obama and give us all a fresh start on a "surge of diplomacy". The leadership in Teheran show all the signs of somebody who is happy to stay the course even if it means no refined fuel, food or jobs for the citizens that "elect" them.
For the early part of the 1930's Winston Churchill's Parliament rantings about the Nazis were regarded as overblown posturing. When he turned out to be right, they lined up behind him in a snappy way all at once.
Of course, they dumped him as soon as it looked like the war was won. I think we are at the same "hinge of history" that he talked about. It's too bad that things will have to get worse before we finally act. I guess the safeguards of democracy are always going to be a limitation on war, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that. It just means that people like me are going to have to push everybody else to act, so when the tipping point is reached, we will be that much better prepared for it.
Meanwhile, you will have to excuse my crocodile tears when Obama bristles at the comparisons of him to Neville Chamberlain.