The Last Hurrah

      Sy Hersh -- the man who brought to the world's attention the massacre at My Lai in Vietnam all those years ago -- has an extended report in this week's New Yorker that should give us all pause--- and reason to be very, very alarmed, indeed. Note this highly ominous paragraph:

“This is a war against terrorism, and Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge war zone,” the former high-level intelligence official told me. “Next, we’re going to have the Iranian campaign. We’ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah—we’ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.” [my italics]

Dear lord, the natters are really going to take this world to the apocalyptic brink, aren't they? (Not that it matters: if there's any nuclear warfare in the Middle East, the dunderheads will likely think they're bringing about the Rapture. Sheesh.) Read further in the article, and know exactly why some of us describe November 2nd as a sad day for humankind. An exaggeration? Perhaps. But we should all be worried that these incompetents seem to be wishing, as they did in Iraq, for peace processes to fail. As the forequoted intelligence official tells Hersh, "It’s not if we’re going to do anything against Iran. They’re doing it." You see what happens when you give this wingnut a mandate?