Annie Oakley goes nuclear
Via ABC News:
Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing on “Good Morning America” Tuesday. ABC News’ Chris Cuomo asked Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.
“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m the president, we will attack Iran,” Clinton said. “In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.”
Uh, let’s see here. We have had the capacity to ‘totally obliterate’ Iran for at least 63 years. Israel’s had the capacity to turn its cities into radioactive glass for half that time. So what’s the point of all this impressive smack talk?
Oh, it worked so well for Kerry. If Bush said “We gotta kill terrorist. Terrorist bad!”, Kerry would pound his chest and retort “Me kill them deader. Me way badder than you’ll ever be.”
And Hillary’s strapping on the helmet and going commando now (keep your mind out of the gutter, Gomer) to prove her toughness to…. um, who?
Pennsylvania’s Jewish voters? Neocons who prefer a shorter Daddy with boobs? I don’t get this kind of electioneering. Is she trying to appeal to the high school lunkhead jock demographic?
At 3 am, if I hear rhe phone ringing, I think I’m going to call forward it to somebody saner. Like Britney Spears.
Senator Clinton, please stop embarrassing yourself. And us. The whole world knows we have a gazillion nukes and that we defend Israel. What we’d like them to know is that we’ve developed our civilization beyond the Neanderthal stage of threatening head bonks to everyone on the planet that Bush has done so artfully the past 7 years.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Amen. Hillary has jumped the nuclear shark.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Actually, for foreign policy talk from Washington these days, this seems remarkably sane and restrained.
Meanwhile, Kevin, you’ve been able to squirm and weave for five years, but we finally labeled you. Congratulations.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 am
Actually this spreading freedom stuff was a bunch of dog dew. Bush should have declaired that Iraq is now U.S. property. Since the Iraqi have shown no responsibility to embrace liberty, but muddle around with uncertainy in an insurgent war, it makes total sense to redeploy and see where the real sides are.
But of course ending the Iraq war means review of atrocities with the likely crimes involved and McCain is making it clear that will not happen.