Backfire

The LA Times suggests that all the saber-rattling against Iran "may have backfired." Geez, ya think so? Here's what the Iranian view of the matter is:

"Because the U.S. military configurations in the Persian Gulf are very similar to those before the Iraq invasion, and because the neoconservatives in the American administration are prone to this sort of stupidity and craziness, we have been fully prepared in terms of hardware and military arsenals but also software and information for electronic warfare," said Hamidreza Taraghi, head of the international affairs office of the Islamic Coalition Party, a conservative parliamentary group close to the Iranian leadership.

Every single last aspect of foreign policy that the neocons touch goes up in flames. They've been wrong on every foreign policy issue of the last thirty years. How these people have a shred a credibility left in Washington is frankly amazing to me.