Iran: here we go again on our own...

The subject line of this post refers both to the hit of superband Whitesnake as well as a running joke by The Daily Show concerning our increasingly belligerent tone toward Iran. In short, The Daily Show has followed closely the comments the U.S. has made regarding Tehran, with a keen interest in the fact that our rhetoric today looks just like that more than three years ago concerning Iraq. And as usual, The Daily Show is apparently right.

 

The BBC reported today on the House Intelligence Committee’s assessment of intelligence on Iran. The Congressional report has two items of note: (1) “Iran is a serious security threat;” (2) there are “major gaps in our knowledge of Iranian nuclear, biological, and chemical programmes.” The BBC goes on: “According to the BBC’s Jonathan Beale in Washington, the report contains worrying echoes of US intelligence failures over the weapons programme of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.”

 

Go out an buy Whitesnake today, so we good patriots can sing the lyrics in unison while the bombs fall! Or, if not, apparently we will prove that we can learn from our mistakes—but thereby only proving that we are hypocrites and that our attack against Iraq was unjustified due to lousy intelligence.

 

History can be a bitch, no?

 

-W.