Nuts

Just in case you weren't aware, there are some very very serious people in the so-called thinking class who are plain nuts:

Via Froomkin:

I find Dan Friedman writing for the American Thinker: "All the damaging consequences of all the blunders the President has committed to date in Iraq are reversible in 48- to 72-hours - the time it will take to destroy Iran's fragile nuclear supply chain from the air. And since the job gets done using mostly stand-off weapons and stealth bombers, not one American soldier, sailor or airman need suffer as much as a bruised foot."

But wouldn't that backfire at least as badly as Iraq? Wouldn't the Iranians strike back?

Not at all, Friedman insists: "They would stand before mankind with their pants around their ankles, dazed, bleeding, crying, reduced to bloviating from mosques in Teheran and pounding their fists on desks at the UN. . . .

"Miracles would be seen here at home. Democratic politicians are dumbstruck, silent for a week. With one swing of his mighty bat, the President has hit a dramatic walk-off homerun. He goes from goat to national hero overnight. The elections in November are a formality. Republicans keep the White House and recapture both houses of Congress."

And we'd all be reduced to dancing in the streets, singing God Bless Amurika and buying gasoline at $.20/gal.

There are a very large number of supposedly serious people who think just like this. The pressure has to be mounting for Bush to throw a hail mary.

I love the premise of this statement. Imagine for a moment if he were talking about Germany, or England, or the U.S. No one would ever assume that all the good little white westerners would stand for such an attack. But the contempt for little brown people is palpable. We know how much the Iraqi's have been "stand[ing] before mankind with their pants around their ankles, dazed, bleeding, crying, reduced to bloviating from mosques in Teheran and pounding their fists on desks at the UN ... It's exactly this kind of psuedo muscular crappola that has us in the fix were in. If we attack Iran I expect you can see the Iraq situation but on steroids.

Added: Digby asks a good question regarding this quote:

(Can someone explain to me why right wingers always, always describe the vanquishment of their enemies as being the victims of anal rape ...pants around their ankles, dazed, bleeding, crying..?)

Makes you go hmmmmm.