For those of you who haven’t seen George Will’s latest slam dunk, here are some of the more exciting bits from his evisceration of the Bill Kristol’s absurd call for war with Iran–now. From Will’s column (the quotes are from Kristol):

“We might consider countering this act of Iranian aggression with a
military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. Why wait? Does
anyone think a nuclear Iran can be contained? That the current regime
will negotiate in good faith? It would be easier to act sooner rather
than later. Yes, there would be repercussions — and they would be
healthy ones, showing a strong America that has rejected further
appeasement.”

“Why wait?” Perhaps because the U.S. military has
enough on its plate in the deteriorating wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,
which both border Iran. And perhaps because containment, although of
uncertain success, did work against Stalin and his successors, and
might be preferable to a war against a nation much larger and more
formidable than Iraq. And if Bashar Assad’s regime does not fall after
the Weekly Standard’s hoped-for third war, with Iran, does the magazine
hope for a fourth?

As for the “healthy” repercussions that the Weekly Standard is so eager
to experience from yet another war: One envies that publication’s
powers of prophecy but wishes it had exercised them on the nation’s
behalf before all of the surprises — all of them unpleasant — that
Iraq has inflicted. And regarding the “appeasement” that the Weekly
Standard decries: Does the magazine really wish the administration had
heeded its earlier (Dec. 20, 2004) editorial advocating war with yet
another nation — the bombing of Syria?

(Hat tip: Daily Dish.)