America’s latest cartoon action hero, US Senator Joe Lieberman, has publically stated that the US should strongly consider a bombing strike against Iran as push back in response to their activities in Iraq.  Lieberman cites an estimate of 200 US soldiers killed owing to direct Iranian involvement.

Obviously Iran is up to trouble in neighboring Iraq.  Iran is a state with powerful ambitions and this troubles a great many other nations. It is also a state that has designs on installing Islamic government in that part of the world.  But … bomb Iran????  Didn’t we try that in Viet Nam and Iraq? What does Foghorn Leghorn Joe Lieberman think the Iranians are going to do the day after a night of bombing? Slap their head in V-8 fashion and sheepishly admit to the error of their ways? Does he think that we will face a uniformed Iranian army with armor and close air support?

Bombing Iran will unleash an epidemic of terrorism and anti-American fervor unlike anything we have seen in the past. And they will bring it to North America. 

Liebermans pronouncement on Face the Nation will be taken by Iranians on the street as further validation of the apocalyptic rantings of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  The US has been intervening in Iranian affairs for quite some time.  The US covertly engineered the overthrow of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and helped install Mohammed Reza Shah into power.  The Iranians know this and it has helped to instill considerable skepticism in their attitude toward all US actions, even the genuinely benevolent.

Why Joe “Gumby” Lieberman?  Because I have to believe that someone is moving his ams and legs into the pose he has taken.  Let’s hope that cooler heads prevail and that we exhaust other avenues before we fire any warshots in Persia.