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The angry left continues to attack the presidency, their focus so intense that nothing else seems to get through their mental filters unless it makes a "gotcha" moment and can be used to attack Bush.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Iran has announced it has enriched uranium.
UPDATE: And Mark Steyn, as always, has an impressive column up on the matter of Iran.
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Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Iran In The Nuclear Club? — Tuesday, 11 April , 2006 @ 1:06 pm
By Mike's America, Wednesday, 12 April , 2006 @ 9:25 am
The Steyn piece is a longer read than his typical column, but as usual, it’s worth it.
The key paragraph:
Four years into the “war on terror,†the Bush administration has begun promoting a new formulation: “the long war.†Not a reassuring name. In a short war, put your money on tanks and bombs—our strengths. In a long war, the better bet is will and manpower—their strengths, and our great weakness. Even a loser can win when he’s up against a defeatist. A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it’s dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us? If you add to the advantages of will and manpower a nuclear capability, the odds shift dramatically.
And I like that reminder of how every lefty in the United States was all in a lather about nuclear weapons and nuclear winter and a nuclear holocaust when the subject was the relatively sane confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet. But now, they just shrug off the possibility of a real nuke attack by Iran.
Mark my words, the left will rediscover their abhorrence for nuclear weapons the minute the United States moves to respond to any Iranian attack, nuke or otherwise.
The anti-nuke crowd, just like the peace movement, has never been about preventing war or saving the world from nuclear armageddon, but on weakening the only power in the world which could prevent the dire events that Steyn foresees.
By Gauis Arbo, Wednesday, 12 April , 2006 @ 9:31 am
Sadly, I think you’re right.