JordanT: Agreed. As I go to great pains to point out, I never voted for Dubya (either time). The Republican Party has essentially disintegrated and has been replaced with a morally and intellectually bankrupt facsimile. They try to look and sound like real conservatives, but come off as holier-than-thou hypocrites.
I don’t think we should invade Iran. I also don’t think we should do nothing, either. Somewhere between the two is a workable strategy for both engagement and containment. I’d love to see a popular revolution in that country, but I doubt strongly it will happen in the next few years. It will probably take between five and 10 years to occur and the strangehold that the hardliners have on that country is considerable.
I do see the parallels with Germany under Hitler being apropos, if for no other reason than Germany was educated, literate and (mostly) moderate. The same country that gave us Goethe, Schiller and Bach also gave us Auschwitz, Rotterdam and Leningrad. It isn’t the people of a country that scare me, it’s their leaders. And America is no different.
