Play it again, George

I've been waiting for someone to roll out the same old tired phrases all over again, and the idiots at the Ayn Rand Institute have obliged:

For the past week, newspapers and magazines have been filled with discussion of possible military action against Iran. The debate, so far, is between those who merely want to "threaten" the use of force, and those who argue that the Iranian threat is illusory. No one is yet willing to face the fact that Iran is already at war with the United States—and that Iran is the central enemy we have to defeat if we are going to win the War on Terrorism.

...The wars we have fought so far, against the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Baathist regime in Iraq—were necessary, but they left the largest, most dangerous Islamist regime untouched. The Iranians know it. Sensing American weakness, they are moving against us on all fronts—and any further delay in pushing them back will only make the task more difficult. We have to act—and we have to act now.

There can be no victory in the War on Terrorism until we confront—and defeat—the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is the real war, and it's time we started fighting it.

Jeebus, talk about a new spin on the liberal claim that Iraq was a diversion from the real war on terror. And talk about recycling the old rhetoric that rushed us to war with Iraq in the first place.

Is it possible that winning the war on terror could involve catching this guy someday? Maybe? Or how about NOT sponsoring the Mujahedeen e-Kalq and Kurdish terrorist groups currently blowing things up in Iran - maybe that would help convince the world that the phrase "war on terror" means something noble rather than being a cynical and hypocritical PR phrase?

Are the neocon warbleggers really so wrapped up in their own delusional reality that they don't realise how sad their bloodlust sounds? I don't hate them - I don't hate Bush. I'm a progressive and we believe it is wrong to hate people with mental illnesses or disabilities. It just makes me sad that they aren't seeking treatment for their illness and that they will therefore continue inflicting it on others.

(P.S. This one is also posted at The Intellectual Activist. It seems the author of this bloodthirsty drivel may well be getting paid twice for the brainsweat it cost him as he is an editor of TIA Daily as well as an editor of the Ayn Rand Institute's Capitalism Magazine.)