Via Brian Beutler, yet another Washington Post column on the “war is peace” theme, this time from Richard Cohen:
But 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.
Uh huh. Meanwhile, Cohen offers us yet another example of an annoying rhetorical trope, namely the fact that the Iraq War has turned out to be such a disaster is deemed to discredit anti-war voices, because opposition to an escalation of hostilities with Iran can now be written off via cheap psychoanalysis as war fatigue or anti-Bush sentiment. Basically, if Bush were popular, it would be irrational to oppose him since he’s so awesome, but now that Bush is unpopular, it’s irrational to allow warranted dislike of Bush to cast aspersions on his policy agenda.