Brewing up a war

It's fashionable for liberal critics like myself to criticize team Bush for outing Valerie Plame both because it was part of a vile political smear, but also because it had potentially disastrous consequences for our national security. Since we're talking about the Vice President and other members of the Bush administration, though, it's probably worth considering the possibility that they saw the consequences of outing Plame--who worked on Iranian anti-proliferation for the CIA--as a feature, not a bug.

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Hey, Bush/Cheney, more than any other administratin I can think of, detests gray. It must be black or white. Anything diplomatic or non-military just creates gray.

So, not only is gray-destroying worth considering as a possibility, it would be irresponsible not to consider it. (to hijack a phrase).

The war hawks hated Clinton's Korea plan (gray creation, again), and they hate the current non-Bolton approach for the same reason. Iraq: more of the same in 2001-02. Iran, coming to a theater near you real soon.

Posted by: JimPortlandOR on October 22, 2007 01:43 PM

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