Meanwhile, down in the Fuhrerbunker…

“And how are my loyal Snowflakesturm today?”

(photo from the excellent film “Downfall”)

When you add the ravings of “Chickenhawks are from Mars”, Bill Kristol…

The right response is renewed strength--in supporting the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan, in standing with Israel, and in pursuing regime change in Syria and Iran. For that matter, we might consider countering this act of Iranian aggression with a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Why wait? Does anyone think a nuclear Iran can be contained? That the current regime will negotiate in good faith? It would be easier to act sooner rather than later. Yes, there would be repercussions--and they would be healthy ones, showing a strong America that has rejected further appeasement.

To the clear-eyed and as-always well-written analysis of Billmon @ Whiskey Bar…

Losing an Army

Earlier this week I linked to a commentary from William S. Lind in which he warned that war with Iran could result in the loss of the 140,000 man army America currently has bogged down in Iraq. This may have seemed far-fetched, given the enormous military disparity between the two sides. But Col. Pat Lang, a former intelligence officer, explains how and why it could happen:

American troops all over central and northern Iraq are supplied with fuel, food, and ammunition by truck convoy from a supply base hundreds of miles away in Kuwait. All but a small amount of our soldiers' supplies come into the country over roads that pass through the Shiite-dominated south of Iraq . . .

Southern Iraq is thoroughly infiltrated by Iranian special operations forces working with Shiite militias, such as Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and the Badr Brigades. Hostilities between Iran and the United States or a change in attitude toward US forces on the part of the Baghdad government could quickly turn the supply roads into a "shooting gallery" 400 to 800 miles long.

(Christian Science Monitor, via No Quarter)

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You end up...where exactly?

With a fistful of President Wimpy’s ludicrious IOUs promising that he will gladly pay you Tuesday for an Armageddon today?

With a lot of “The Rice Man Cometh” pipe-dream smoke-and-terror happytalk about warwarwarwarwar?

With Kristol announcing to the entire planet that this brilliant strategy



is somehow the perfect fucking model for coping with real enemies in a real world where we are about a half-a-million troops short of being able to get it up, get it in and get it on, anywhere?

And you gotta ask yourself, since the war junkies on the Right are classic cowards who will never, ever pony up the flesh of their own flesh to go and fight their wars, where oh where do they think they’re going to be able to scare up hundreds of thousands of warm bodies to throw into the kill box?

But then you add Chief of Staff Mother Goose reading aloud from “There was an Old Dubya...”

(The “bad” version of which goes…

There was an old Dubya who lived in a bubble.
With all these snowflake babies...and election-year trouble.
So he posed them for cameras, then left them for dead
When they could have helped us cure Alzheimer’s instead.)

But the “good” version of which goes...

"...the president sincerely hopes that all 400,000 fertilized embryos can be adopted to grow into beautiful children like the ones you saw..."

And the realization dawns that the Neocons have their future cannon-fodder staffing needs all worked out.

And “Begun, this Snowflake Baby war has.”