Reply #34: No, not sabre rattling

[Tom Rinaldo]

What world do you live in? It is simply a fact, there is "a military option", and if matters proceed beyond a certain point then someone will use it, if not the United States than Israel. Do you doubt that both nations already have detailed plans for militarily dealing with Iran's developing nuclear program? If you do not start out by dealing with probable reality it is difficult to change the course of that unfolding reality.

Vengeful is an accurate term, not an emotionally laden one the way you used it. Clark did not praise Bush, you injected that. Bush probably was in part motivated by vengeful feelings. That doesn't make the comment regarding Iran less true. One of the reasons, in fact, why Iraq is likely to spiral into a civil war is because many inside Iraq acknowledge and act on their vengeful feelings. One of the many reasons why it was wrong to go into Iraq was because doing so created more anti American "terrorists" than ever would have existed otherwise. Clark is dead on right about the consequence and few American national leaders are acknowledging it. He is, he deserves credit for that, not scorn.