Hullabaloo:
"John at Crooks and Liars caught Joe Klein in a perfect example of shallow, knee jerk, beltway conventional wisdom that has made him the object of ridicule among everybody who observes the punditocrisy.
He goes on about how the young people of Iran love us, blah, blah, blah, but then makes an emphatic point that we must not take nuclear weapons 'off the table.' Apparently he doesn't understand the difference between nuclear weapons being 'on the table' in the event of an attack and nuclear weapons being 'on the table' as part of the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptively attacking anyone who looks at us sideways.
Pre-emptive nuclear war has never been on the table. We don't want it on the table. It's, as Stephanopolous exclaimed, 'insane.' (The look on Klein's face when Steph did that was priceless. It was obvious that he thought he was saying something that everybody but the fever swamps believes is the serious position.) . . . "
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