It should be noted that in the last few days Senator Clinton has said some pretty out there things regarding Iran and the defense of Israel. In last week’s ABC sponsored shit show, Hillary in passing mentioned massive retaliation on Iran if they were to attack Israel in any way. No follow up question was asked, nor was there any clarification from Clinton as to what exactly “massive retaliation” entailed. All we had afterwords was Pat Buchanan on MSNBC having a conniption fit, one of his every so often justified ones.

Usually “massive retaliation” means a nuclear strike, which prompts from me this rhetorical question… would we really bomb with nuclear missiles the nation which leads Earth in the number of performed nose jobs? Something about that just doesn’t sound right.

Now again today, Hillary decided to escalate her world of pain language:

“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.”

First off, Iran is never going to attack Israel with nuclear weapons (should they even get them years from now). They will never do it, because they know it would mean the end of their nation. Moving on…

The foolishness of her taking this tact is something I find startling. Have we won either the Iraq or Afghanistan wars using this guns blazing strategy? Would we ever in wars of choice? This goes into a larger problem of the countless individuals, on all sides of the political playground, who continue to allow the Bush crew to shape their reality. The black and white shades can come off now. We don’t live in that world anymore, we never did.

If we are to responsibly move forward as a nation, the complete rhetorical paradigm with which we begin to discuss foreign policy needs evolve into something more reflective of the actual complex world we live in.

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Punchline to the bar joke: so Israel says, “I can’t hear you because I’ve got a carrot in my ear.”