It’s Confirmed: Dick Cheney is an official “Evil Genius”

Doctor Evil can’t hold a candle to this guy, both in the depths of his machinations and in his proclivity to do exactly the wrong thing strategically.

I did a quick search to see if anyone had noticed this little item buried deep in the
Newsweek article on Israel’s raid on Syria… didn’t see it anywhere, so here’s the money graph:

  One official who pushed a particularly hawkish line on Iran was David Wurmser, who had served since 2003 as Cheney’s Middle East adviser.

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A few months before he quit, according to two knowledgeable sources, Wurmser told a small group of people that Cheney had been mulling the idea of pushing for limited Israeli missile strikes against the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz-and perhaps other sites-in order to provoke Tehran into lashing out. The Iranian reaction would then give Washington a pretext to launch strikes against military and nuclear targets in Iran. (Wurmser’s remarks were first reported last week by Washington foreign-policy blogger Steven Clemons and corroborated by NEWSWEEK.)

Wurmser quit last month, so depending on how many months equals “a few,” Cheney would have been “mulling” all this right about the time our troops were starting The Surge next door.

Forget the ethics and legality of all this, and leave aside for the moment the fact that our current “preemptive war” isn’t working out so well, or that the military is pretty much tapped out, or that Iran’s leader is every bit as loopy and dangerous as ours.

At what level of incompetent assholery does it become a good idea to provoke a two-front war?