Bill Kristol offers solution: Yep, you guessed it
War.
Whatever the problem, the ever-eager Bill Kristol believes that other people dying can solve it. The ardent cheerleader of our invasion of Iraq, where more than 4,400 U.S. soldiers died for a cause yet to reveal itself, now champions that same “solution” for Iran, a much more difficult problem. And in a piece in the Weekly Standard, complete with requisite Churchill quote, he and co-author Jamie Fly argue that if President Obama doesn’t do it, Congress should intervene:
Bill Kristol
“President Obama says a nuclear Iran is unacceptable. The real and credible threat of force is probably the last hope of persuading the Iranian regime to back down. So: Isn’t it time for the president to ask Congress for an Authorization for Use of Military Force against Iran’s nuclear program?
Instead of running away from it, administration officials could be putting the military option front and center and ensuring it is seen as viable. And if the administration flinches, Congress could consider passing such an authorization anyway. While any commander in chief has the constitutional authority to take urgent action to protect Americans and their interests, such legislation would give weight to the president’s commitment to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. It would strengthen the president’s hand. It would show Tehran that America’s policy of preventing an Iranian nuclear weapon is a credible one. Bipartisan support for such an authorization would remove the issue as much as possible from the turmoil of election year politics. And the authorization could also make clear that the United States would come to Israel’s aid in the event that it decides it needs to take action….
We don’t expect the Obama administration to request an Authorization for Use of Military Force. But Congress can act without such a request. By doing so, it would serve the nation’s interest, and, indeed, the administration’s, if the administration means what it says.
Surely it is time for a concentration of congressional opinion and force capable of lifting our efforts to the level of emergency. The Obama administration may be committed to leading from behind, but Congress can choose to lead from the front.
– Jay Bookman
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massachusetts refugee 10.167.4.48
June 18th, 2012
11:38 am
the cons wanting to dismantke the solial safety net reminds me of judge smails – “didn’t want to do it, felt I owed it to them”
stands for decibels
June 18th, 2012
11:38 am
Gibbon wrote the book on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
Dude wasn’t shy about singing his own praises.
jeff
June 18th, 2012
11:38 am
No one with a brain, liberal or conservative want to send young American men and women to war. But there are times when force is the only answer. Is a nuclear armed Iran something the world can have?
I know how I feel about it and that answer is NO. However, I think we can deal a serious blow to their nuke program with air power only. No need for troops on the ground.. It is not a question of if Iran will get nukes, it is when if we don’t stop them, and then when they get them it is not a question of if they will use them it again is when.
Tundra Dude
June 18th, 2012
11:43 am
JM wrote:
No one loves Obama
Seems like far fewer than ‘08. The top 2 German weekly mags, (formerly BO supporters),
said he lacks leadership. One called his presidency a failure.
Now his former law professor chimes in:
Obama’s Former Harvard Law School Professor, Says The President ‘Must Be Defeated’
The Huffington Post | By Bonnie Kavoussi 06/16/2012
The professor went on to list his complaints: (just a few listed)
“His policy is financial confidence and food stamps.”
“He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.”
“He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money.”
http://huff.to/MhdLQc
Brosephus™
June 18th, 2012
11:43 am
you can’t deny that he became somewhat of a cause célèbre in many (liberal) circles.
Bruno, I’d agree with dB in that, it was more about the incident than it was about the person. I don’t think it would have really mattered in who was at the business end of those blows, they would have been thrust into the spotlight. There are SCOTUS rulings that address that, and I’m really surprised that even after that video and court cases, that particular incident is not a primary training tool for the use of force policies for my agency. Nowadays, there are cameras all around capable of catching video.
barking frog
June 18th, 2012
11:43 am
The Kennesaw solution:
UN resolution-All countries
must have nuclear weapons.
No more war.
stands for decibels
June 18th, 2012
11:45 am
All countries
must have nuclear weapons.
if it’s a Kennesaw solution, then you’d have to more accurately say “All countries must have nuclear weapons, unless they don’t feel like it, in which case we won’t actually fine you or do anything.”
saywhat?
June 18th, 2012
11:46 am
Fresh sheets!
barking frog
June 18th, 2012
11:46 am
sfd
works for me.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
11:46 am
Egypt is still under a military rule so you cons can come out under your beds.
To be expected from the cons because they run away from the truth.
Lets all act bat shyte crazy like our cons.
Bruno
June 18th, 2012
11:47 am
No one with a brain, liberal or conservative want to send young American men and women to war. But there are times when force is the only answer.
jeff–Once again it often comes down to the “short-run” vs. the “long-run”. Liberals are all about short-run compassion, which often works against more solid long-term solutions which Conservatives typically favor.
Gotta run, check back later…….
Brosephus™
June 18th, 2012
11:47 am
dB @ 11:38
I’ve always wondered if they named that primate after him.
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
11:48 am
Not even the charlotte convention chairman is in favor of Romney
Oops
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
June 18th, 2012
11:48 am
I know, I know…off topic…but I wanted to post it for Scout…
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/06/ap-military-gay-pride-month-military-recognize-gay-troops-061412/
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
11:48 am
Not even the charlotte convention chairman is in favor of Obama
Typo Oops
JamVet
June 18th, 2012
11:49 am
Bruno, there is nothing that you can tell me about growing up poor that I have not already experienced.
Powdered milk, anyone?
Raise capital gains to the same levels of taxation as earned income.
In fact, lets reverse the rates for four decades and see what impact that has on the middle class vs. the elites.
Raise the minimum wage to $10.75/hour. So that it is at least at the same rate it was in 1968!!!
AMT for the super-rich and corporations. No more free rides.
Reform child care credits.
Implement Social Security withholding on ALL income. No more free rides on earnings over the now arbitrary cap.
Stop giving tax breaks for much higher pension contributions for highly paid employees than for rank-and-file employees.
Replace Medicare with Federal, single payer health insurance.
barking frog
June 18th, 2012
11:49 am
Brosephus
I think Gibbon was named
for the primate.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
11:49 am
“solid long-term solutions which Conservatives typically favor.”
Now that is funny.
Liberal Democrat
June 18th, 2012
11:49 am
We must raise taxes on the workers to support those of us on welfare.
Brosephus™
June 18th, 2012
11:50 am
frog
Gotcha!!!
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
11:55 am
The number of people who voted for Obama because they thought he would deliver them jobs is stupidly high
saywhat?
June 18th, 2012
11:55 am
“which often works against more solid long-term solutions which Conservatives typically favor.”
__________________________________________________________________
which translates as “ignore whatever problems we don’t care about, and in our minds, they will go away”. Its how Iran doesn’t have any homosexuals, why there were never any workplace injuries before OSHA, no old sick homeless people before Medicare or Social security (at least not for very long, wink wink, nudge nudge), no man influenced climate change EVER, etc.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
11:57 am
cons want to go back to the fifties so lets use that tax rate.
Joe Hussein Mama
June 18th, 2012
12:00 pm
0311 — “Agree to STRONGLY Disagree !”
Shrug. If you don’t want to be rebuked so hard, then don’t make religious claims about large groups of people. It’s pretty hard, for example, for atheists to be involved in a “religious” war.
“(May I recommend “American Jihad” by Steven Emerson)”
I read it when it came out. It’s full of horse poop.
“P.S. You can use Hussein in your “handle” all you want but in their eyes you are still an “infidel” worthy of death !”
Maybe you should concentrate more on following your *own* religion’s prescriptions, and worry less about what others are doing. I find it laughable that you could even *consider* that atheists could somehow be involved in a “religious war.”
saywhat?
June 18th, 2012
12:01 pm
The number stupid baseless comments about the people who voted for Obama is stupidly high.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
12:03 pm
I am scared to death of brown people and I am brown.
Paulo977
June 18th, 2012
12:04 pm
Jam Vet
eplace Medicare with Federal, single payer health insurance.
_________________________________________
Number One Priority!!
the cat
June 18th, 2012
12:04 pm
The Romneys took a $77,000 tax deduction on one of Ann’s horses????
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/06/16/the_tax_deductibility_of_horse_related_expenses.html
barking frog
June 18th, 2012
12:07 pm
Put everyone on Medicare
so you too can enjoy
paying $115.40 per month
for each family member.
Paulo977
June 18th, 2012
12:08 pm
Liberal Democrat
We must raise taxes on the workers to support those of us on welfare.!!!!!!!!!!
____________________________________________________
Whoever claimed Marx did not know what he was talking about!!!!!
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
12:14 pm
Cat
Horse lovers have always gotten lots of deductions
Thank congress for subsidizing recreational activities
Sports franchises also get special treatment
barking frog
June 18th, 2012
12:18 pm
Jm
Farmers and Fishermen also
getalife
June 18th, 2012
12:20 pm
frog,
The farmers down here said they can take their subsidies out of their cold dead hands.
the cat
June 18th, 2012
12:20 pm
Jm-do you not have to show a profit occasionally?
Doggone/GA
June 18th, 2012
12:23 pm
“Horse lovers have always gotten lots of deductions”
If the horse is a breeding stallion, and they have a breeding business…competition expenses are a legitimate business deduction.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
12:24 pm
The drug cartels are in the horse breeding business.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
12:26 pm
Connect the dots.
willard is from Mexico.
Williebkind
June 18th, 2012
12:26 pm
“There are multiple possible translations of what he said, and from I’ve read, the ‘wipe Israel off the map’ assertion is a somewhat tortured and stretched interpretation/translation of what Ahmedinejad actually said.”
This sounds like liberals trying to interpret the constitution, a somewhat tortured and stretched interpretation/translation. He said what he mean. I am sorry you can not understand that.
Paul
June 18th, 2012
12:27 pm
the cat
“The Romneys took a $77,000 tax deduction on one of Ann’s horses????”
“tis a business expense.
A more honest deduction than the woman I saw write a $450 check for groceries from one of those big business binders. The checker told me she always paid for her family’s groceries with a business check.
An accountant friend told me the vast majority of small business owners vastly inflate (to use a polite euphemism) their business deductions.
So I guess the Romneys really can relate to middle America.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
12:27 pm
The romney cartel.
willard is a Mexican drug lord.
Doggone/GA
June 18th, 2012
12:28 pm
“The drug cartels are in the horse breeding business”
yeah, I heard that report too
They BOTH suck
June 18th, 2012
12:30 pm
“This sounds like liberals trying to interpret the constitution, a somewhat tortured and stretched interpretation/translation. He said what he mean. I am sorry you can not understand that.”
And you have been studying, reading, talking and translating Farsi for how long bow?
Joe Hussein Mama
June 18th, 2012
12:30 pm
Williebkind — “This sounds like liberals trying to interpret the constitution, a somewhat tortured and stretched interpretation/translation.”
You sound like someone trying to defend his own ignorance.
“He said what he mean. I am sorry you can not understand that.”
What makes you think you understand it so well, if all you’ve read is a translation someone else provided?
larry
June 18th, 2012
12:30 pm
Did somebody kidnap Jay ?
They BOTH suck
June 18th, 2012
12:31 pm
“now……..”
Excuse me on that one
the cat
June 18th, 2012
12:32 pm
I hardly think the Romney’s horses are a business since Ann rides as an amateur and the rules are very strict as to what constitues an amateur for horse showing.
Interesting the people on here that have no problem with this deduction for a hobby being more than most people’s annual income. I’m sure I would be audited and trust they will too.
godless heathen
June 18th, 2012
12:33 pm
“godless: Brosephus: Have the women that R. King beat up forgiven him?
I don’t know, why don’t you ask them instead of asking me?”
I thought “you people” all knew each other.
(r,d,&h)
TiredOfIt
June 18th, 2012
12:34 pm
Nothing like mitt-waffle to inspire certainty in business. This guys waffles on his waffles!
Doggone/GA
June 18th, 2012
12:35 pm
“I hardly think the Romney’s horses are a business since Ann rides as an amateur and the rules are very strict as to what constitues an amateur for horse showing”
It isn’t the rider’s status that determines that, it’s the horse’s. As I said, if the horse is a breeding stallion and they are in the breeding business them completition related expenses are a legitimate deduction. what would NOT be legitimate are expenses related to HER competitions. A saddle would be, a new pair of riding boots for her would not.
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
12:35 pm
Cat
There are sometimes rules around that
I don’t know exactly, haven’t been into the details of horse tax breaks in several years
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
12:37 pm
Frog 12:18
Producing food is not a hobby
getalife
June 18th, 2012
12:37 pm
Mexico, drug cartel, horse breeding business.
The romney cartel is busted.
Williebkind
June 18th, 2012
12:38 pm
JamVet
June 18th, 2012
11:49 am
Powdered milk, anyone?– We use it today.
Raise capital gains to the same levels of taxation as earned income.– I can do that (it does not affect me)
In fact, lets reverse the rates for four decades and see what impact that has on the middle class vs. the elites.– I do not like that term elites.
Raise the minimum wage to $10.75/hour. So that it is at least at the same rate it was in 1968!!! –Nope as long as companies pays selected management millions then the minimum wage should be $20 an hour.
AMT for the super-rich and corporations. No more free rides. — I could go along with no free rides but rates could be lower
Reform child care credits.–ok
Implement Social Security withholding on ALL income. No more free rides on earnings over the now arbitrary cap.– I always liked that idea.
Stop giving tax breaks for much higher pension contributions for highly paid employees than for rank-and-file employees.– absolutely
Replace Medicare with Federal, single payer health ins– Hell no!
Joe Hussein Mama
June 18th, 2012
12:38 pm
Larry — “Did somebody kidnap Jay ?”
He’s traveling this week and said that his postings would be more sporadic.
Thomas
June 18th, 2012
12:39 pm
Implement Social Security withholding on ALL income. No more free rides on earnings over the now arbitrary cap
Yeah- and stop taxing social security benefits on anyone
And allow capital losses and not allow arbitrary 3k per year limits on individuals and $0 limits for corporations
larry
June 18th, 2012
12:39 pm
Ahhhhh, thank you .
Paul
June 18th, 2012
12:42 pm
the cat
I do believe you’re proceeding on an assumption about the hobby vs business thing. Tax accountants at that level tend not to recommend deductions that are not clearly winnable. Tends to bring a lot of scrutiny – not a good thing for a $77,000 deduction that translates to only about 11 grand in tax savings.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
June 18th, 2012
12:49 pm
larry
June 18th, 2012
12:30 pm
Did somebody kidnap Jay ?
didnt kidnap, but the AJC is sliding into oblivion so Jay had MULTIPLE responsibilities for the paper now, they are down to skeleton “journalists” so they do many functions that the AJC once had a bloated staff for……………
it may be his day to clean the toilets
oscar
June 18th, 2012
12:50 pm
Cut spending and raaise taxes. Time we did what everyone knows we nedto
getalife
June 18th, 2012
12:51 pm
The robme drug cartel kidnapped Jay.
barking frog
June 18th, 2012
12:53 pm
Jm
IRS call many food farmers
‘hobby farmers’ and disallows tax deuctions but
treats a farmer differently.
oscar
June 18th, 2012
12:56 pm
Tryin to learn to use lap top. Not going paarticularily well
.
Curious
June 18th, 2012
12:59 pm
Never did find out.
Is pro wrestling real?
oscar
June 18th, 2012
1:00 pm
So today the subject is hobbyhorses,
gm
June 18th, 2012
1:02 pm
How could any sane person vot rep? Willard and the nut wings on the right are just bitting at the teeth to get more American troops killed and the sad thing about it hateful middle class, poor whites are the ones who will be pulling the trigger because they hate Obama.
oscar
June 18th, 2012
1:02 pm
Pro wrestling is real in the it is not imaginery.
Gimme Gimme Gimme
June 18th, 2012
1:03 pm
“Where is Jay?” ‘He’s traveling this week and said that his postings would be more sporadic.”
Is Media Matters holding a retreat?
godless heathen
June 18th, 2012
1:07 pm
A saddle would be, a new pair of riding boots for her would not.
I was going to ask, “What about a saddle for Michelle?” but then I decided that was mean and insensitive and someone would try to put a racial angle on it, so I decided against posting it.
Tundra Dude
June 18th, 2012
1:08 pm
Is pro wrestling real?
About as real as politics, sez Jesse Ventura.
Socialist for Obama
June 18th, 2012
1:14 pm
Obama once again sticks his finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing….. is that leadership or survival?
barking frog
June 18th, 2012
1:16 pm
Socialist
I would say that is politics
which is usually a little of
both.
JamVet
June 18th, 2012
1:17 pm
One of the great tragedies of the last decade – and gawd knows there was an almost infinite number during the BushCo Reign of Error – was that Jesse V. did not get the chance to snatch up, in the dead of night, both Dickhead Cheney and Candyass Hannity and waterboard them to within a inch of their worthless lives…
All for charity, of course…
Curious
June 18th, 2012
1:18 pm
Reckon all the fans at Pro wrestling “matches” are conservatives?
getalife
June 18th, 2012
1:18 pm
gm,
cons are self defeatist and want another collapse.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
1:20 pm
I have been in the ring with the Von Eric boys.
Yes, when they body slammed me, it felt real.
Gimme Gimme Gimme
June 18th, 2012
1:23 pm
Von Eric’s. They the barefoot ones who had a lot of suicides in their family?
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
1:24 pm
Seiu Democrat volunteers shouted down Romney
Yep. Looks like both sides are playing the game.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
1:25 pm
gimme,
Yes, the beat me in the ring but I beat them on the football field.
Hot Air
June 18th, 2012
1:25 pm
Soros doesn’t pay for leadership. He pays top dollar and expects results from the puppet man.
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
1:29 pm
“the private sector is doing fine” -BO
barking frog
June 18th, 2012
1:30 pm
getalife
what football position
did you play?
Curious
June 18th, 2012
1:30 pm
JamVet,
We all know that waterboarding is not a life threatening procedure. VP Cheney and Hannity told us already.
JohnnyReb
June 18th, 2012
1:30 pm
“Is Media Matters holding a retreat?”
One liners are priceless.
oscar
June 18th, 2012
1:31 pm
Just over fours months until the general election. Getting pretty close. Have the people that run America decided how the outcome will turn out yet. Ask Jessa Ventura. Maybe he knows.
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
1:31 pm
Romney outraised Obama among small donors
Romney is the people’s candidate
getalife
June 18th, 2012
1:32 pm
frog,
Linebacker
Joe Hussein Mama
June 18th, 2012
1:33 pm
Jm — “Seiu Democrat volunteers shouted down Romney Yep. Looks like both sides are playing the game.”
So SEIU volunteers = reporters
Only in JM-land.
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
1:34 pm
Obama: “we need more government workers”
Say what?
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
1:36 pm
Jhm r u poor of eyesight, or reading comp?
Cause I didn’t say democratic volunteers were reporters
Get it together man
Oblama
June 18th, 2012
1:37 pm
If Soros is looking for a yes man to push his agenda then he is getting his money’s worth.
barking frog
June 18th, 2012
1:39 pm
getalife
i tried for tailback on a
single wing in high school
at 130 lbs in the tennessee
hills where many players
were old enough to buy
whiskey. i trained for two
springs only. guys in your
position kept me from committing suicide in the fall.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
1:42 pm
We had another wrestling friend named Danny Little Bear. I was a kid watching my fist match and they fought outside the ring right next to me and he took a chair shot to his head. I grabbed the chair from the other guy and took off running. After the show they told me it was not real and laughed at what I did.I was hooked on wrestling and loved going back stage to talk to them. They were like a family.
getalife
June 18th, 2012
1:45 pm
frog,
We never worried about concussions and called them getting your bell rung.
I liked to lead with my head so I got my bell rung many times.
Mick
June 18th, 2012
1:46 pm
jamvet
Having a blast in wichita!!! Riding harleys, flying small planes, hunting, fishing – I feel like I’m back to the garden! To top it off, the night before I depart gonaa catch nugent, speedwagon, and styxx…Sometimes you just gotta breathe – life is good..
paul
Here’s a shout out to the great texas beginnings…
Hot Air
June 18th, 2012
1:47 pm
Pro wrestling is just as real as Obama……… our first “Reality Show” President.
saywhat?
June 18th, 2012
1:49 pm
“Romney outraised Obama among small donors”
_____________________________________________
The number of bald faced lies that get told once it is known Jay isn’t around is stupidly high.
JamVet
June 18th, 2012
1:51 pm
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — What does Mitt Romney really think about carried interest?
The tax break, which benefits private equity partners, continues to save the Republican presidential candidate millions of dollars in taxes after a pioneering career at Bain Capital.
Romney has, in the past, explicitly called for keeping the tax benefit in place. But this election cycle, even when asked directly, the candidate has not clearly articulated a position.
I’ve seen teenage girls with more mettle than this silver spoon fed, triple talking, Trump asskissing, huckster of a severely liberal RINO.
And you guppies actually think he is gonna be a champion for the working man?
getalife
June 18th, 2012
1:51 pm
If you do not know how to land right in pro wrestling, you will get hurt.
Climb in the ring to see how real it is.
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 18th, 2012
1:52 pm
Saywhat?
It’s a fact , check recent fundraising figures
And jay is around, don’t worry
getalife
June 18th, 2012
1:52 pm
saywhat?
If you see the name jm, you know it is a lie.