Sanctions

I guess we should expect a lot more of this from the wise men of the Post:

the true realism is that Iran is a menace -- potentially a great one -- and that its Revolutionary Guard is engaged in the dirty business of killing Americans and others. The fact that the Bush administration says so does not make it otherwise.

The Senate's resolution was a necessary step toward tightening sanctions on Iran -- a way to avoid war, not the overture to one. It was intended to send a message of resolve, but the message that went out showed instead that a good piece of America thinks that Bush is its prime enemy -- and Iran just another bee in his bonnet.

I feel fairly confident at this point that George Bush et al are capable of causing more harm to this country in the next year plus than Iran ever could. In fact, to me that's self-evident. I also feel fairly confident that the effect of sanctions against any country has everything to do with the leaders imposing them, and that this administration should be eyed suspiciously in all of its acts of foreign policy. But I guess that places me and the majority of the American people into some disreputable category of false patriotism that we'll no doubt be ridiculed for in the months ahead.