"... my god, Walt, how is it you make a living as a putative intellectual? Why does anyone employ you? After getting the Apache video controversy utterly wrong by replacing objective analysis of the facts with code pinkish propaganda [something you should have apologized for if you had any respect for the American soldier] I'd hoped you'd be shamed into silence - but no, now you're gonna explain Iran to all us warmongers because obviously your unsullied, unblemished, uncompromised intellectual gifts demand a hearing.
Iran's military is no match for ours? Are you serious? We've been in Afghanistan for nine years and nothing resembling a modern military has ever existed there!! Iran hasn't invaded another country? If they have no deterrence in the form of a powerful military or WMDs how could they and why would they? Much more sensible to rely on proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas while you secretly develop a nuclear capability. Jesus, did you put any thought into this essay at all? America and Iran are essentially the same because both have engaged in questionable initiatives? That's a joke, right? Because by that logic given the Indian Wars and Teddy's run up San Juan and the Philippines etc etc we should have stayed out of WWII because essentially we were no better than the fascist regimes in Japan and Germany - in fact America should just unilaterally disarm since relativism renders all power illegitimate. Hell, let's pull it back a few hundred years: Elizabeth should never have opposed the Spanish Armada because, what, was England really any better? And how all those brainy guys in Athens got fooled into thinking it a good idea to fight the Persians is anybody's guess - Hellenised cretins, you couldn't see the peace just sitting there waiting to be negotiated?
Your proof against the threat of proliferation in the Mideast is an unpublished dissertation? C'mon, really? Jesus, man, a barely sentient Keith Olbermann has expressed more objectively reasoned opinions than this and it's his job to peddle simplistic, ideologically biased formulations..."
