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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Jules Crittenden points out Benny Morris's Iranian Holocaust essay, first pointed to here, now reprinted in the Jerusalem Post, as an intro to his own excellent column today: Law and History

...Congress is preparing a resolution to undercut the president’s plan to bring stability to Iraq. And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has warned George Bush must seek congressional approval before attacking Iran. That prospect is raised by Bush’s threat to interdict Iran’s support for Iraq’s Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents, and by the dispatch of a second aircraft carrier group to the Persian Gulf. Congress of course approved regime change and the invasion of Iraq, a venture now jeopardized by Iranian interference. Our hostilities with Iran date to the 1979 hostage crisis and continued through the Iranian-sponsored murder of 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983 to the Iranian-sponsored murder of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq today.

Iran now seeks to dominate the world’s richest oil-producing region with terrorism, nuclear weapons and the manipulation of puppet states. An overt declaration of war against Iran could be warranted. But it would be window dressing, and Congress shows no inclination to pursue the vital interests of this nation. That leaves the president, in lonely leadership, to act as the found fathers envisioned he might have to. Alone, without interference...

Crittenden's essay hits the spot, and his relating the situation to the real Vietnam narrative is particularly to the point. Severe action against Syria and Iran for their interference in Iraq is now years overdue (and note, I'm not necessarily talking about a full scale invasion). Most people may poll that they don't like what's happening in Iraq, but that doesn't mean they don't want it to work out, they just don't trust the guy at the top to get it right. Bush appears to be belatedly trying to turn the screws to salvage this thing, and some people are trying to hang weights around his neck. Why, it's almost as though they don't want the Iraq project to be successful.

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Why, it's almost as though they don't want the Iraq project to be successful.

Guess you didn't see this. :-(

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