If McCain Were President
Joe Klein has a smart piece on McCain’s bellicose statements about Iran. Bottom line: Things would be a lot scarier if he were president. Key passages:
There is no question that President Obama’s more prudent path is the correct one right now. There is also no question that the neoconservatives are trying to gin up this situation into an excuse for not engaging with the Iranian government in the near future–and also as a rationale for their dearest, looniest dream, war with Iran.
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The point is, neoconservatives like McCain and Wehner just can’t seem to quit their dangerous habit of making broad, extreme statements based on ideology rather than detailed knowledge of the situation in Iran and elsewhere. This was always the main problem with McCain’s candidacy–he would have been a trigger-happy President, just as Wehner’s old boss, George W. Bush, was. We are well out of that.
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I think the right wing understands that it would be wrong for Obama to speak out about the Iranian situation. But they are out of things to say and this is the only way to get on t.v. right now.
Being irrelevant is difficult to get used to.