Following up on the last week's psychotic eerily Thatcher-esque nuke-rattling, Clinton went even further Daisy Spot-ward this morning to put a punctuation mark on her "look-at-my-testicles" tactical assault. You've probably already seen it, but if not:
Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing on "Good Morning America" Tuesday. ABC News' Chris Cuomo asked Clinton what she would do if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.
"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."
This prompts a particularly salient question worth weighing, at very least as a lesson of the last eight years. Who in their right fucking mind thinks that the way to disarm a potentially hostile nation is to threaten in every breath it destroy it?
This, of course, notwithstanding the NIE and all other actual, y'know, evidence that Iran does not, in fact, pose a goddamn nuclear threat, as Paul Craig Roberts addressed soberly over at Counterpunch last month.
Maybe Clinton should consult Colin Powell and Larry Wilkerson on how this kind of bullshit worked out before, then explain how it involves a breath of anything resembling fresh air in these toxic times.