LOL This (among other things) is why I refuse to participate in Facebook. From what I understand this “Twitter” thing is even more navel gazing; “I’m going to lunch now”…”I’m back from lunch now.” If worse comes to worse, you could always forget the Facebook thing and stick with Barely a Blog. I’m sure regular posters here would have no problem helping out slapping down the occasional moron and we’d all hate to lose your wonderful commentary.

There was a fascinating talk on C-SPAN about those “pre-emptive chickenhawks”: by Col. Andrew Bacevich, author:

http://www.amazon.com/Washington-Rules-Americas-Permanent-American/dp/0805091416

FACEBOOK: A soundbite nation who promotes pompous pizza pie pushers into Presidential prominence is not the most conducive to intelligent debate.

It saddens me to know that you waste so much of your very valuable time and energy responding to the intellectual onanism of the overwhelming number of digital dilettantes you face. I for one would be terribly disappointed to lose your unique and consistently principled voice.

Just knowing that there is someone else out there who can correctly and so clearly identify the insanity I see daily makes it easier for me to endure. You so very often give me additional ammunition in the form of delightfully worded, lucid and concise arguments that I certainly hadn’t thought of. And, you frequently bring to my attention things that I wouldn’t have known about from my other sources.

Thank you so very much.

Also, I don’t think Iranians are suicidal and to some extent are reacting to US overreach in the region (Iran is surrounded by US forces).

In conclusion I think that the threat is overblown and Iran is only a threat to the extent that it supports terrorists groups like Hezbollah.

Too bad we’re importing people from these places. It’s good to know they’ll bring their cultures to “enrich” the US!

Israel probably can’t advertise this MAD (mutually assured destruction) strategy without putting their German suppliers in an uncomfortable position.

It certainly makes sense from Israel’s point of view to try to get Obama to help in this matter. That doesn’t mean that it is in the US’s interest to comply by attacking Iran.

I think that the real problem for Israel is that a nuclear armed Iran will feel freer to ramp up its proxy war against Israel because Israel’s direct response against Iran will have to be moderated in consideration of the nuclear question. I think it unlikely that Iran would risk Israel’s response to a Iranian nuclear first strike so long as Israel doesn’t find some other way to threaten the survival of the regime.