from The Nation:
GIULIANI'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER SOUNDS LIKE A MADMAN...In an interview in Saturday's Daily Telegraph, one of Rudy Giuliani's leading foreign policy advisers-- Norman Podhoretz --prattles on about we must bomb Iran. Talking about military strikes, including cruise missiles and "bunker busters", this neoncon man sounds delusional: "It would take five minutes. You'd wake up one morning and the strikes would have been ordered and carried out during the night. All the president has to say is go."
Putting aside the immorality and illegality of this death wish, military action would be irrational for both sides. The US military is already stretched to the breaking point. We'd witness unprecedented pandemonium in oil markets. Our troops in Iraq would be endangered.
What about the fact that six weeks of bombing in the Gulf War in 1991 didn't take out the Iraqi Scud missiles? Nor did the Israeli bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor have any impact on curbing regional proliferation. What about Podhoretz's professed concern for democracy in the region, especially for Iran's dissidents?
Listen to Akbar Ganji, an Iranian journalist and dissident, who sat in Evin Prison from 2000 to 2006. In an op-ed for the Washington Post last week, he wrote: "The Iranian people, myself included, need freedom, democracy and peace--not war conditions and constant worries about a potential barrage of US missiles."
Podhoretz and his insanity will embolden Iranian hardliners, plunge the region into even greater and darker instability and undermine our security. If one needed any more reasons why Rudy Giuliani should be fully, completely, unequivocally disqualified from being President and Commander-in-Chief, listen to Podhoretz's insanity.
Posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel at 10/28/2007 @ 2:27pm
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