ramble through the bronx

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Rebel without a Cause

And so, what [the Iranian president]'s doing by embellishing -- and
this is my guess, my sort of heuristic guess, because I don't know,
but what I think he's doing, he's basically playing chicken, like in
the old James Dean movie, the two cars going at each other at high
speed. He's playing chicken with the President of the United States.
So that's what we're into. We've got the President of the United
States, who's been making -- Bush, as you know, and Cheney have been
making an awful lot of bellicose statements in the last couple months,
saying that they'll rule out no option, which obviously is a nuclear
suggestion, also making declarations about red lines and where Iran
can or cannot go. So the bellicosity of the United States is now being
matched by the bellicosity of the Iranian president. I mean, great way
to run a world.

Sy Hersh, in an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, edited version available at Alternet, full version at Democracy Now.

Good times.

jane 11:10 AM [+]