The De-Evolution of Commentary.

In the 80s one might have argued that is offered a sobering does of reality to Jewish American liberals who were often sympathetic to communism....now it reads like parody of itself, except that is has become the parody.
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The Case for Bombing Iran

By Norman Podhoretz From issue: June 2007

Although many persist in denying it, I continue to believe that what September 11, 2001 did was to plunge us headlong into nothing less than another world war. I call this new war World War IV, because I also believe that what is generally known as the cold war was actually World War III, and that this one bears a closer resemblance to that great conflict than it does to World War II. Like the cold war, as the military historian Eliot Cohen was the first to recognize, the one we are now in has ideological roots, pitting us against Islamofascism, yet another mutation of the totalitarian disease we defeated first in the shape of Nazism and fascism and then in the shape of Communism; it is global in scope; it is being fought with a variety of weapons, not all of them military; and it is likely to go on for decades.

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I will let Justin Ramando at Antiwar.com do the heavy lifting.

Examining Podhoretz's case for war with Iran, we can see, with painful clarity, neoconservatism's utter immorality as a guiding philosophy, its recklessness, and its brazen disregard for the elementary moral and ethical precepts that underlie Western civilization. To hear Podhoretz tell it, we must attack and kill many thousands – not because we are certain Iran poses a threat, but because we are uncertain. We must enrage the entire Muslim world, provoke attacks on U.S. interests globally, and wreck our economy, all in the name of the struggle against "Islamofascism" – a make-believe idea that has no existence outside of table talk in the American Enterprise Institute cafeteria.

What world is Norman Podhoretz living in? Short answer: one that bears not the slightest resemblance to reality. In a normal world, his ravings would be no more important than the deranged tirades of the village nutcase. To our horror, however, we are living in a reality where Podhoretz's twisted ideology is largely shared by the most powerful man on earth. Therefore, when Poddy writes "my guess is that [Bush] intends, within the next 21 months, to order air strikes against the Iranian nuclear facilities from the three U.S. aircraft carriers already sitting nearby," we might very well take him seriously.