The Moose is off on a tear again. We MUST follow Bush to Iran, and damn the torpedoes.
The Moose elaborates on the Weltanschauung of our foreign policy sophisticates on Iran.
The Moose is all hung up in an inferiority complex. Note how, whenever he notices that his opinion is in the drastic minority, he pulls out the old "elitist" argument. People who disagree with his knee-jerk reaction are "sophisticates". In other articles they're "elitists". He uses the words exactly the same way the right does, in a complete orgy of anti-intellectualism.
To be a member of the sophisticated CW club on Iran you must dismiss the Iranian leader Ahmadinejad as a kook with minimal influence. His threats toward Israel and the West are merely attempts to establish Iran as a regional superpower. And we are only inflating his importance by even noting his utterances about annihilating Israel. Sophisticated observers know better.
Actually, Moosie, if you'd actually pay attention, you'd notice that quite a few of us on the left are worried sick about him. I haven't personally heard anyone "dismiss him as a kook". The Moose consistently oversimplifies and distorts the arguments of his detractors. "Sophisticated observers" - by which Wittman means, anyone he's afraid might be more intelligent than him - know better?
Anyway, Iran is years away from obtaining a bomb. Our intelligence tells us so. We can wait, there is no hurry. Complacency is cool. Anyway, why shouldn't Iran have a bomb? It is a symbol of national prestige. And if they had a bomb, it would be suicidal for them to use it. Containment worked toward the Soviet Union - why not Iran?
Moosie, does your mind really and truly conflate separate arguments in that way? No wonder you can't think straight.
Moreover, we cannot do anything about Iran even if they are at the point where there is no turning back on moving toward nukes. We would not even know where to hit. And it would trigger a regional war. We could lose Iraq. America would be the victim of proliferation of terrorist attacks.
And after all, even if we could do something about it, we have to wait until we have a competent President. We are weak. President Bush is incompetent. America's first objective is regime change at home. Don't worry, be happy.
Truly stunning analytical skills on display here. Wittman manages to throw every argument he's heard against his Nuke Them Now position in a basket and dismiss it all as feelgood philosophy. Hey Wittman, ever try sticking to the points and responding to them rather than finding new ways to paint your detractors as mindless idiots?
Pardon the Moose, but he is not a sophisticate.
Pardon the Sundog, but we knew that a long time ago.
Moosie goes on for several paragraphs to show us just how serious the situation is, as if he is speaking to a bunch of idiots who think Iran is our bestest friend. Is this truly how he thinks? Is he truly unable to see the world in terms rather than "Me smart, you stupid"?
Guess what, Moosie - and this is the point that you cannot see, along with that one on top of your head - the fact that this is a real crisis does not automatically make necessary any one course of action, because the cures actually could be worse than the disease. It is terribly important that we think this through more thoroughly than you and your ilk have shown themselves capable of.
Moosie doesn't care. He learned absolutely nothing from Iraq. We have do do it! To hell with the consequences! To hell with an exit plan! Anyone who doesn't agree is a dope-smoking hippie.
The Moose apologizes for considering such impolite, crude and quasi-neo-con thoughts.
Quasi-neo-con. I like that. Your true colors are showing Moosie, and they sure ain't blue.
Maybe the sophisticates are right. Perhaps we should all relax and take a deep breath. Maybe the words from Teheran have no meaning.
Don't worry, be happy.
Maddeningly and intolerabley insulting, as always. Calm reflection equals stupid appeasement.
Wittman, we realize the situation is serious. What you don't seem to realize is that your analysis, on the intellectual level of 2 + 2 = 4, is maddeningly, stupefyingly, intolerably inadequate for the situation. We simply have to be smarter than your kneejerk modes of thought here.
Go back to the other side of the aisle, Moosie. You made a big mistake leaving the Republicans.
