Chastened Much?

Philip Weiss attends an event sponsored by the Middle East Forum in New York with former Cheney aide David Wurmser and reports back. Here’s a snip from the Q and A:

What are the 3 things he would tell John McCain if he were his adviser?


“Let me just bluntly answer that. One, abandon the two‐​state solution statement that we have right now vis a vis the Palestinians. Two—Well, let me start with number one. Number one is an open, publicly expressed regime‐​change strategy in Iran. Two, an open expressed regime‐​change strategy in Syria. 3, abandoning the two‐​state solution policy we’ve had frankly since the 9/11 attacks…”

One honestly has to wonder, what would it take these folks to learn from the disaster that their bizarre theories begot in Iraq? Meanwhile, today’s Washington Post lets us know (via Eric Martin) that we should keep an eye out for a new NIE on Iraq — except, despite its no doubt being chock‐​full of great news about how terrific things are over there, the administration apparently doesn’t want to release a version publicly.


As terrifying as each of the presidential candidates is in various ways, it’s going to be a relief when this long national nightmare is over. We deserve, at the very least, a new nightmare.