Oh, the Insanity

In a long new interview with Jeffrey "Profound Morality" Goldberg, Obama explains what he hopes will happen with Iran and nuclear weapons:

...it is important for us to see if we can solve this thing permanently, as opposed to temporarily. And the only way, historically, that a country has ultimately decided not to get nuclear weapons without constant military intervention has been when they themselves take [nuclear weapons] off the table. That's what happened in Libya, that's what happened in South Africa.

Before Obama became president, a part of his brain would have told him: Proposing Libya as a model for a "permanent solution" won't be very enticing to Iranian leaders, given that after Libya gave up nuclear weapons we attacked them and Gaddafi ended up dead with a knife stuck up his ass.

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When you add this to our invasion of Iraq, you've pretty much guaranteed no one on earth will disarm for the next 100 years.

  Jon Schwarz