Yes We Can Nuke Iran!

If his appointment of Hillary Clinton to Secretary of State wasn't enough of a slap in the face to his antiwar supporters, President Elect Obama apparently intends to retaliate with nuclear weapons if Iran were to use nukes against Israel. Israeli newspaper Haaretz talked to a source close to the new administration, who said that the threat of retaliation would be part of a "nuclear umbrella" along with a missile defense system. In a sure sign of the apocalypse, a senior Bush administration official showed some common sense by saying:

"Who will convince the citizen in Kansas that the U.S. needs to get mixed up in a nuclear war because Haifa was bombed? And what is the point of an American response, after Israel's cities are destroyed in an Iranian nuclear strike?"

Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons, and is most likely years from developing them, which should render the matter moot for the time being. However it has to be disturbing to those who believed that Obama represented a new kind of foreign policy. I certainly didn't support Obama, but I did hold out some small hope that he would be slightly less likely than John McCain to start another war, it is now beginning to seem as if even my modest hopes were too much.