Mitt in this article implicitly promises that war can make us, and apparently even France, safe from Islamoterrorist attacks and even end Jihader Islam.
Those are lies.
It is also a lie told by many Republicans since the attacks in Paris that those attacks prove O was wrong when he said the Islamic State, a creation of ISIS the terrorist and guerrilla organization that lives chiefly within it but has affiliates and members operating elsewhere and has been doing its level best to expand on the ground in Syria and Iraq, has been contained, and Mitt repeats that one, too.
The extent of American on the ground warfare he demands is excessive and would be not only useless but probably just as counter-productive as was taking down Saddam Hussein.
And of course he joins the president and pretty much everybody else in blandly retailing the lie that Jihader Islam is somehow not the real Islam and not the traditional Islam.
(Peter Beinart has attacked Marco Rubio for trimming the edge of this useful, perhaps even necessary lie, though of course he writes as though he believes the lie to be true; and perhaps he does.)
On the whole, hysterical Republican bullshit of the kind made oh so familiar by Republicans since 9/11, that very day.
I wonder if there is any chance Mitt will jump into the race.
Krugman has sensible things to say, apart from that bit about the relative threats of global warming and Jihader Islam (he of course just calls it terrorism).
Only the latter would nuke us if it could - in other words, will nuke us as soon as it can.
And that is a reason to dread an Iranian bomb that seems to have escaped Pat Buchanan.
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