Today's Boston Globe has another editorial, entitled Hillary Strangelove, that points out how truly stupid and foolhardy Hillary Clinton's recently articulated commitment to "Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran" is, labeling the policy a "foolish and dangerous threat [that] was muted in domestic media coverage".
Responding to questions in the British House of Lords, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown said of Hillary's Soviet-Style threats of a mushroom cloud blossom over Iran:
"While it is reasonable to warn Iran of the consequences of it continuing to develop nuclear weapons and what those real consequences bring to its security, it is probably not prudent in today's world to threaten to obliterate any other country and in many cases civilians resident in such a country."
Saudi Arabian Newspapers (the same Saudi Arabia who is supposedly one of the most at risk from "Iranian Aggression" and would benefit the most from Hillary Poppin's Nuclear Umbrella Strategy) called the threats:
"the foreign politics of the madhouse," saying, "it demonstrates the same doltish ignorance that has distinguished Bush's foreign relations."
The Boston Globe went on to add (emphasis mine):
The Saudis are not always sound advisers on American foreign policy. But they understand that Rambo rhetoric like Clinton's only plays into the hands of Iranian hard-liners who want to plow ahead with efforts to attain a nuclear weapons capability. They argue that Iran must have that capability in order to deter the United States from doing what Clinton threatened to do.
While Clinton has hammered Obama for supporting military strikes in Pakistan, her comments on Iran are much more far-reaching. She seems not to realize that she undermined Iranian reformists and pragmatists. The Iranian people have been more favorable to America than any other in the Gulf region or the Middle East.
Totally misunderstanding of the politics, religion, and culture of the Middle East? Strengthening marginal hard-liners and providing them the justification to proliferate nuclear weapons? Pandering to extreme American Zionism and "Christian Zionism" in order to score cheap points and win an election? Refusal to believe the Nation's own intelligence establishment?
Hillary Clinton is George Bush, Jr. folks. Clear and simple.
The wishier-washier members of the Left and the Democratic Party often shrug off the primary battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, claiming there is not a difference between the two candidates would be better than President Bush. Hillary Clinton's "Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran" policy clearly shows that sentiment to be an outright lie.
A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for a NeoCon Skirt masquerading in a Progressive Pant Suit. A vote for Hillary is a vote for endless war in the Middle East on behalf of a narrow set of interests. A vote for Hillary is a vote for more Islamic Extremism and Terrorism. A vote for Hillary is a vote for Less Diplomacy. A vote for Hillary is a vote that potentially brings the world that much closer to Nuclear Genocide.
Or as the Boston Globe put it:
A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran - and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran - should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night.