Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Mother Jones: Obama May Bomb Iran

If these speculations are true, then I have more respect for the incoming President. However, I find it strange that the hard Left is so suspicious of the guy. Yeah, he's not totally abandoning Bush's foreign policy, but he made Bush a popular target for over a year.

But, I digress. Mother Jones is one of the farthest-left of all of the Lefist magazines. But, they may be speaking some sense here:

Even worse, says a former State Department official, Tehran might push its luck too far—with catastrophic consequences. "Iran would have to be careful not to overplay its hand," says this expert, who worked closely with the Iraq Study Group, the 2006 commission led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton. "And if they overplay it, frankly, Obama would use the military instrument, and it won't be a pinpoint attack. It will be a massive one."

Well, they may be right. Let's see our next move.

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