Is Christopher Hitchens afflicted with advanced alcoholism or advanced syphilis?
I’d also like to ask the same thing of Charles Krauthammer:
Here’s what Charles Krauthammer says will happen if we bomb Iran:
An attack on Iran is likely to send oil prices overnight to $100 or even to $150 a barrel. That will cause a worldwide recession perhaps as deep as the one triggered by the Iranian revolution of 1979.
Iran might suspend its own 2.5 million barrels a day of oil exports and might even be joined by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, asserting primacy as the world’s leading anti-imperialist. But even more effectively, Iran will shock the oil markets by closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the world’s exports flow every day…
Iran will activate its proxies in Iraq, most notably, Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army. Sadr is already wreaking havoc with sectarian attacks on Sunni civilians. Iran could order the Mahdi Army and its other agents within the police and armed forces to take up arms against the institutions of the central government itself, threatening the very anchor of the new Iraq. Many Mahdi will die, but they live to die. Many Iraqis and coalition soldiers are likely to die as well.
Iran might activate terrorist cells around the world…
There will be massive criticism of America from around the world…
It’s probably also worth noting what’s not likely to happen: namely, achieving our goal of destroying Iran’s nuclear program.
Krauthammer’s advice: let’s do it anyway.
