CALL ME SNAKE

For years, Sy Hersch has warned us that the U.S. was going to attack Iran, and I worried about it, all the time telling myself it couldn’t possibly happen (could it?). The U.S. military was badly overextended; things were not going well in Iraq, despite the public pronouncements, and the situation in Afghanistan was deteriorating as well. But still I worried. As time went on, and the end of the Bush regime drew near, I kept telling myself they can’t do it now. Yet there is the term October Surprise, and leave it to Cheney and Karl Rove to try that. But nothing happened in October and Bush is now a lame duck and the Republicans don’t have much to gain by attacking Iran now, do they? So despite all the terrible things that happened in the Bush years, this is one terrible thing that didn’t happen. Yet. And I don’t think it will.