Here’s a quote from an Iranian friend who was in Iran at the time:
“You should have seen how people reacted to the capture of Saddam and how they praised Bush and every body was saying, if only U.S. attacks Iran.
While riding in a cab, the cab driver asked, “ when will Bush come and save us?” He said Bush is Imam Zaman”
Imam Zaman = the Imam of All Time, the Messiah
Yet.
I am seeing our president install as our Secretary of Defense the former DCI Robert M. Gates who coauthored the 2004 Council on Foreign Relations paper "Iran: Time for a New Direction" with Zbigniew Brzezinski the National Security Advisor for that great friend of Israel and freedom everywhere James Earl Carter.
Now one might ask why would the vanquisher of Saddam Hussein want to do the Neville Chamberlain buttkissing dance with Rat Boy and Khameini.
Go back to that paper: the Bobbsey Twins call for "improved intelligence"--but wait, under Carter and his good buddy Stan Turner 820 case officers were sacrificed on the altar of detente Halloween 1977.
How do we improve intelligence by destroying humint.
How do we obtain victory by suing for peace.
What moved Iran from the Axis of Evil to a strategic partner to be consulted vis-a-vis the stability of Iraq.
I advise Christopher Hitchens to wake up and smell the sweet tea.
The NIE should have been torn up in shreds on national teevee with the prez doing a Mexican hat dance on it on the Oval Office rug followed by one of those "the attack begins in five minutes" bits.
B-2. Spirits. Massive Ordnance Penetrator(s). Natanz Baby Milk Factory. Just Do It.
And. More heart attacks for ayatollahs.
Oh, and Zbigniew Brzezinski is the foreign policy advisor of the Twelfth Imam from Chicago, dispatched to Damascus for another Munich Moment.
Does anyone doubt that the folks who did the Embassy and barracks bombings in 1983 would not use their nuclear capability to do say the Big Apple asap.
Meanwhile the road map and making the jooz use the side door at Annapolis.
Hitchens, Hitchens, Hitchens, you have your answer.