NIALL FERGUSON GOT OUT JUST IN TIME

Ferguson is a Harvard professor who wrote op-eds for the LA Times. He's also a member of the conservative Hoover Institution and was mentioned approvingly by wingnut radio gasbag Jerry Doyle. In his last piece, on October 22, he's urging Bush to use airpower to pre-emptively strike at Iran's nuclear infrastructure. He writes:

Washington's most reliable ally in the Middle East, Israel, recently demonstrated the ease with which a modern air force can destroy a suspected nuclear facility. Not only was last month's attack on a site in northeastern Syria carried out without Israeli losses, there was no retaliation on the part of Damascus. Memo from Ehud Olmert to George W. Bush: You can do this, and do it with impunity.

It's simply STUPID to assert that an attack would not create a retaliation from Iran and/or its surrogates. Oh yeah, according to the 2007 Iran NIE, it's completely unnecessary.