By Lieberman’s Logic, the US May Have to Bomb Itself

[kpete]

By Lieberman’s Logic, the US May Have to Bomb Itself
by Robert Naiman

Lieberman claimed there was “incontrovertible” evidence that Iranians were training Iraqis to use explosives, but, as is usual for these claims, he didn’t provide any. The Times article noted that “American officials concede that they are unable to prove that senior Iranian officials are behind the smuggling.”

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To absorb the full force of how criminally insane Lieberman’s statement was, suppose we adopted the following proposition:

“The United States should launch airstrikes against any country which is supplying weapons or other support to insurgents in Iraq.”

Who would we have to bomb?

Of course we would have to bomb Syria. There’s no question that Syria could be doing more to stop the flow of weapons and fighters across the Syrian-Iraqi border. They could, for example, construct a 20-foot high electrified fence along the entire border, with a shark-infested moat. Since they aren’t doing this, we’d have to bomb them. But we would also have to bomb Saudi Arabia and Jordan, who could also be doing more to stop the flow of fighters and money from their territory to Sunni insurgents.

But, to be fully consistent, we couldn’t stop there. We would also have to bomb the United States.

more at:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/13/1857/

[Fridays Child]

1. "Criminally insane" is exactly right. k/r