AN ELDERLY WAR WHORE WANTS MORE...

(Via M.J. Rosenberg at TPM Cafe)

A famous neo-con isn't satisfied with the Iraq Fiasco and wants to expand the "WOT" to Iran.


The Case for Bombing Iran
I hope and pray that President Bush will do it.
BY NORMAN PODHORETZ
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
12:01 a.m. EDT

As the currently main center of the Islamofascist ideology against which we have been fighting since 9/11, and as (according to the State Department's latest annual report on the subject) the main sponsor of the terrorism that is Islamofascism's weapon of choice, Iran too is a front in World War IV. Moreover, its effort to build a nuclear arsenal makes it the potentially most dangerous one of all.

In short, the plain and brutal truth is that if Iran is to be prevented from developing a nuclear arsenal, there is no alternative to the actual use of military force--any more than there was an alternative to force if Hitler was to be stopped in 1938.

...the job would have to be done, if it is to be done at all, by a campaign of air strikes. Furthermore, because Iran's nuclear facilities are dispersed, and because some of them are underground, many sorties and bunker-busting munitions would be required. And because such a campaign is beyond the capabilities of Israel, and the will, let alone the courage, of any of our other allies, it could be carried out only by the United States.

As we should know by now, there are a great many factual errors in wingnut writing. In this case, the claim that Iran is the center of Islamofascism is preposterous. Iran has been a quiet ally in our fight against Al Qaeda and Iranians have a very low opinion Osama bin Laden. In parts of the piece not quoted here, Podhoretz embraces Mark Steyn's fantasy of "Eurabia" and the false notion that schools in Britain have stopped teaching about the Holocaust and the Crusades.