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Bill Kristol is repulsive. He just can't get enough of Americans dying in preemptive wars in the middle east, even though he wouldn't in a million years dream of having one of his own kids or grandkids serve on the front lines.
Iran is despised by the Arabs. An attack would only serve to galvanize support for a lousy regime within the country (even from those Iranians who are otherwise sympathetic to the West), and from their natural enemies. Not only would a preemptive attack on a non-threat be immoral, it's also stupid, and works against our every interest.
U.S. newspapers this fall will devote countless column inches and network TV will set aside endless hours to revisiting the most perilous month in the history of the republic, if not of the world.
Nikita Khrushchev's decision to secretly install nuclear-armed intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba began to form in his mind sometime earlier, perhaps in April of 1961.
Then it was that the new young U.S. President John F. Kennedy put a brigade of Cubans ashore to become the vanguard of a guerrilla army to overthrow Fidel Castro's regime.
The Bay of Pigs...
You can't tell this to your typical talk radio listener/cable tv viewer. This requires thought as verses emoting.