There’s no need to review that familiar ground, though I’ll quote a recent statement from Tucker Carlson that’s generated much discussion:

It’s worth pointing out that a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East, and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars. The cost of future acts of terrorIsm on American soil may be even higher. Those aren’t guesses. Those are the Pentagon’s own estimates. A bombing campaign against Iran will set off a war, and it will be America’s war. Don’t let the propagandists lie to you.

Everybody knows a war like that has zero to do with the welfare of Americans. No American would give Iran so much as a second thought were it not for media propaganda.

In 2013, Donald Trump wrote: “Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly — not skilled!” We could use that Trump right about now.

I’m reading social media posts in response to Tucker’s comments and it’s all low-IQ John McCainisms about “appeasement.” Twenty years of failure and disaster, and they’ve learned not a single thing.

If you are speaking in slogans, you are probably not understanding an issue deeply. Slogans are for leftists. It’s always a leftist’s car whenever you see a vehicle covered in bumper stickers. There’s a reason for that: their entire worldview is a bumper sticker. They think every complicated question can be reduced to two words.

We are supposed to be a teensy bit more advanced than that.

It would be slightly less maddening if we hadn’t been through this over and over again. It’s like people who were fooled by the “moderate rebels” in Syria. Anyone with any brain cells at all knew what was going to happen.

And you don’t get credit for belatedly deciding that the war in Iraq was idiotic and destructive, when you then want to turn around and duplicate it on a larger scale.

And then ten years down the road, when any damn fool will be able to see the folly of yet another Middle Eastern war, the rest of us will have to endure all the hand-wringing about how “we now know” we shouldn’t have done it, and we serious people have all now had second thoughts, etc. Really, spare us.

Looks like I’ll have to revisit the subject on the Tom Woods Show. Just when I thought people were finally coming to understand the Pat Buchanan position on all this, it rears its head again.

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