Obama loves authority figures– who are the authorities? In the Washington Post, Richard Cohen says that an Iranian bomb is a threat to the US not just to Israel and that Obama should do like Nixon and go "crazy" to match Ahmadinejad, and Cohen suggests we lack the power to stop Israel from attacking. Anne Appelbaum, also in the Post, says that Israel will likely bomb Iran and we just have to go along with that because it’s an "unwanted war of necessity."
Both writers slight the threat to American forces of such madness. Both writers rationalize Israeli "paranoia" as a legitimate response to Israel’s wacko neighborhood. Both writers say nothing about Palestinian grievances. And Cohen wrongly states that Egypt didn’t care about Israeli nukes. (As if the countries did not have 3 wars over balance of power between ’56 and ’73). Thus neoconservatism continues its IV drip into the nation.
