Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran

Juan Cole--a typically unhinged leftist paranoiac accurate analyst of American affairs in the Middle East--points us to this frightening report from Barnett Rubin about Dick Cheney's attempts to rile public support for a bombing campaign in Iran.

From this, Juan voices some of the same concerns I've been raising for some time:

Earlier, McClatchy reported on Aug. 9 that Cheney has been urging bombing of Iranian trails to Iraq. This position struck me as eerily reminiscent of Nixon-Kissinger's treatment of Cambodia (which is what really caused the Khmer Rouge horrors, not, as Bush said the other day, US withdrawal from Vietnam; we dropped enormous amounts of ordnance on that country and severely disrupted it).

Which in a small way makes me feel good about my not-unhinged instincts, but in a very big way makes me hope I'm terribly mistaken.