Via Think Progress: The Giuliani campaign unveiled its foreign policy team yesterday, and prominent among the names is Norman Podhoretz, the murderous lunatic who recently demanded that the United States “bomb Iran” despite his own admission that such an attack could ”unleash a wave of anti-Americanism all over the world that will make the anti-Americanism we’ve experienced so far look like a lovefest.”
Podhoretz is an unapologetic extremist of the very same neoconservative crowd that has been so thoroughly discredited by its role in formenting the Iraq war. His advocacy of war with Iran is insane not just from a moral but also a strategic standpoint: an attack on Iran would not stop, and would likely accelerate Iran’s nuclear program, and would almost certainly benefit the very hardliners the neocons claim to be so worried about. Podhoretz is an addled ideologue, not a serious foreign policy thinker, and by hiring him, Giuliani has demonstrated that he is determined to stick to — and possibly expand upon — the failed policies of the Bush administration. Some conservative commenters have hinted that they’d like to see Iran at the center of the debate during the 2008 election; Rudy seems intent on granting them their wish.
I’ll do a full post on Podhoretz, as well as other members of Giuliani’s foreign policy team — which includes notable conservative names like Peter Berkowitz — as part of the policy advisors series. Look for the Podhoretz profile soon.
Cross-posted at Alien & Sedition.
4 Responses to “Giuliani Hires Norman Podhoretz, Neocon Warmonger”
[...] between the “Stupid Party” and the “Evil Party.” Between Feith and Giuliani advisor Norman “Bomb Iran” Podhoretz, can we posit that the modern GOP has finally managed to [...]
when I picture folks who say things like matt did, above, I see zombies with black holes where eyes should be, sleep-walking with a mob, substituting ‘bomb Iran’ for heil Hitler.
They certainly aren’t thinking straight: “erraidiating” — or even irradiating–tel aviv would kill Palestinian Arabs, no? Why would Iran do that? zionists may have no compunctions to kill their own in order to make a point, but Persians don’t have that baggage in their recent history.
[...] Iran war hawk; his foreign policy team is full of unreconstructed neocons — most notorious is Norman Podhoretz, but the others are just as bad — and he plainly offers nothing but a hyper-aggressive form [...]
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taking military action off the table completely weakens us diplomaticly, but beatnicks don’t understand that. followers of hessein obama believe us the be the bad guys, the terrorists. the threat from iran is not just the bombs they will be able to build shortly, but the dirty bombs hezzbollah could have in the very near futures. but like always, the left would rather depend on the completely unreliable UN to solve the problem. i guess we will have until tel aviv is erraidiated before we act, even then liberals are likely to flinch.
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July 11, 2007 at 12:36pm