Under Cover of Interesting Times

The question of Bush taking us to war with Iran had fallen off my radar. Does it deserve to be back on it? That’s the question I ask. Are furious, dire efforts (i.e. blogging about it) to counter Bush’s cynical attempts to sell us another war an imperative? Or is the prospect, at this point, so remote--that blogging the tea leaves of war reveals only the power self-fulfilling prophecy has over those who find in Bush the dictator-in-chief their inner rebel longs to overthrow?

I’m leaning toward the latter. The potential horror of it is simply too inspiring to let real world circumstances outmode the joy of earnest (wild) speculation. Preventing war with Iran has become a cause, and like so many other causes, success is not embraced least the cause’s reason for being ceases to exist. On the contrary, the cause itself becomes the sole perpetuator of the looming threat it rose up to fight in the first place. That’s not to say Bush wouldn’t sell us a war with Iran if we were buying. But we’re not, and neither is Congress, the Military or the Press.

It’s certainly not sensational to conclude that the prospect of war with Iran is vanishing. Coming to terms with that also happens to undercut the very mantra that the system itself is corrupt beyond redemption. In fact, the only real looming threat that the freewheeling alarmists appear to be faced with at this point is the prospect that these interesting times are quickly coming to an end, and with it their veil of credibility.