North Korea already has nukes and will inevitably collapse within 25 years. Russia and China have the potential to end human civilization if their leadership ever has a really bad day. Yeah, Iran is up there on the list, but putting it at number one is just stupid.

Sarah Palin

Lack of In-House Intellectual Capacity to accept and deal with its debt burden

The Economist, Foreign Affairs and this magazine all agree: Pakistan

Lack of credible GOP leadership

Fox News

No credible alternative to the Milton Friedman "Shock & Awe" economic model which will soon be coming home to roost!

Last thing Obama ever wants to be known as is a War – rior President! Bob Woodward makes that very clear in his latest book.

One just needs to look at what the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been to know that this would not be an investment in our future. The latest numbers from the Congressional Research Service are staggering.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf

Besides, if war was such a good way out of an economic crisis we should be out already. I truely hope that the Republican party recognizes (and I think the vast majority of them do) that just deciding to run into another war will only hurt our cause and our economy more. I truely doubt that support would be there as he proposes.

... why not declare war on sand and bomb the desert?

The line of reasoning that war, not economic stimulus, helps the economy, is so inane i don't understand where it comes from. A bomb produces nothing aside from a crater; America's productivity was in no way improved by dropping a bomb, be it in the middle of Berlin or the middle of the desert. It was instead the act of the government procuring billions of dollars in aid while taxing the rich well over 50%.

What war-happy neocons are really arguing is that the only politically safe stimulus spending is war, and that peaceful stimulus spending is politically impossible.

The answer to your question is a big affirmative! Broder is obviously demented. Time for him to be bid farewell and a peaceful retirement by his employer.

1) We are destined to experience a humiliating failure as we leave Iraq (witness the violence in Bagdad last evening), a wholly unnecessary war which Broder, amongst others, cheered us into;
2) we are wasting more lives and treasure in Afghanistan where no outside power has ever been successful in history as far back as Alexander, and where there is no longer any clear mission;
3) we are on the threshold of expanding that war into Pakistan;
4) we are initiating military action under the radar in Yemen;
5) and the neocons would have us consider going back to Somolia.

A war with Iran would hardly end our current economic woes, and it might be the end of the US as a republic. It would lead to an economic catastrophe involving a quarter of the world's oil, negate the influence of the opposition within Iran, and antagonize a majority of the Islamic population from Africa to Indonesia. Iran would prove to be much more difficult adversary than either Saddam's Iraq or the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Neocons and our own militarists would love to have us in a perpetual war with one part of the world or another, but it should be obvious that we have fallen repeatedly for Osama bin Laden's plan to trap us into just such an expensive and debilitating conflict. As well as all of the countries where we are already at war, Iran poses no existential threat to the US. A bigger threat is the hubris of our own militarists. It is only the blatant falsehoods being perpetrated by pundits such as Mr Broder that push us towards additional conflicts, which threaten to bleed our economic power and reduce our democratic freedoms.

Broder is not crazy. If he is crazy then Joe Lieberman, Bill Kristol, Krauthammer, Richard Greenburg, john Podhoretz,, Chuck Shumer, Chris Wallace, Cohen, like all of the other AIPAC warmongers who worship at the alter of Zionism.

Fighting proxy wars for Israel is becoming a passion with these folks. Who can blame Broder. They got numbskull Bush to lead us into an Israeli inspired war against Iraq, why not Iran? He certainly has the networks and mainstream press on his side. I have yet to see one pundit on television that is against invading Iran. Christiane Armanpour being the exception.

yea, North Korea already has nukes and will inevitably collapse within 25 years. Russia and China have the potential to end human civilization if their leadership ever has a really bad day. thanks!
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