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jlf1961 -> Neocons Ready Fall Campaign to "Pearl Harbor" Iran (7/27/2010 3:24:20 PM)
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It's still summer but the word in Washington is that, come fall, the neocon crowd that helped lie us into Iraq will be out trying to do the same thing with Iran.
Commentary, the magazine which invented neoconservatism, is already announcing that sanctions have failed and it's time for the next step.
And this neocon manifesto argues that war is bad, but a lot better than no war. Of course, nobody takes Commentary seriously (it is too open about its "Greater Israel first" agenda). But it still is valuable because of what it tells you about neocon thinking.
But Jeff Goldberg of the Atlantic is something else. He writes for Atlantic and Atlantic (both the magazine and the blog made famous by Andrew Sullivan) matters.
In late August, the influential Goldberg will be coming out with a cover story urging the United States to attack Iran so that Israel doesn't have to. Goldberg, an American who served in the Israeli army as a guard at a Palestinian prison camp, is about as close to the "pro-Israel" lobby as one can be without actually working at headquarters.
Full story here.
And we hear the same people criticizing President Obama for putting more troops in Afghanistan.
My question is, with the call to put the national guard, if not regular Army troops on the southern border, our commitments in the number of men and women slated to go to Afghanistan, just where in the hell do they think they can come up with the troops?
In a related note:
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Ahmadinejad says expects U.S. to attack MidEast soon
(Reuters) - Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on "at least two countries" in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state-run Press TV.
In an interview recorded on Monday, Ahmadinejad did not specify whether he thought Iran itself would be attacked nor did he say what intelligence led him to expect such a move.
full story here.
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