Boston Globe Slams Hillary Strangelove

Last Tuesday morning Hillary Clinton said if she were president, she would "totally obliterate" Iran if Iran attacked Israel. Apparently, Hillary - or Akasha a/k/a Queen of the Damned to borrow from Anne Rice, as I will henceforth refer to Hillary - wanted to look tough on foreirgn policy. Instead she looked like she's as crazy as the Chimperator and certainly not one to be given the power to authorize the use of atomic weaponry. Of course, the Christianists probably loved Akasha's remarks since nothing (other than perhaps denigrating and bashing gays) excites them more than killing Muslims regardless of age or gender. A more sober analysis of Akasha's wrecklessness can be found in the editorial page of today's Boston Globe. Here are some highlights:
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AMERICANS have learned to take with a grain of salt much of the rhetoric in a campaign like the current Democratic donnybrook between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Still, there are some red lines that should never be crossed. Clinton did so Tuesday morning, the day of the Pennsylvania primary, when she told ABC's "Good Morning America" that, if she were president, she would "totally obliterate" Iran if Iran attacked Israel. This foolish and dangerous threat was muted in domestic media coverage. But it reverberated in headlines around the world.

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The Saudi paper [Arab News] called Clinton's nuclear threat "the foreign politics of the madhouse," saying, "it demonstrates the same doltish ignorance that has distinguished Bush's foreign relations." The Saudis are not always sound advisers on American foreign policy. But they understand that Rambo rhetoric like Clinton's only plays into the hands of Iranian hard-liners who want to plow ahead with efforts to attain a nuclear weapons capability. They argue that Iran must have that capability in order to deter the United States from doing what Clinton threatened to do.

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A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran - and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran - should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night.