The New Road

War porn

There are few things I find more disgusting than war porn. In this case Sean Hannity, who has never served, drools over the various types of munitions we could pour on Iran to implement "regime change". It's porn for the gun nut crowd. The type of people who, for some insane reason, even after the complete failure that is Iraq, believe that bombs can change the world. If we drop enough bombs on Iran, surely they will come to their senses!

Have these people learned nothing from Iraq? Nothing at all? In this entire Hannity piece he never once mentions Iraq. Never talks about lessons learned that they might apply to this third war. Never talks about how to stem the Iranian army who maybe, just maybe, might pour over the Iraq border and attack our troops on the ground in Iraq after their country was bombed?

Iraq is right next door to Iran. Surely Hannity and the rest of the wingnuts have learned something from Iraq. Or are they really just that stupid?

Hannity always reminds me of the kids I knew in High School who would spend endless hours in their Mom's basement watching "The World At War" and playing "Axis and Allies". Not that it's a bad game, but the real world is not a board game. Surely if Iraq has shown anything it's that the "just invade" mentality has no credibility. In the real world, when you invade a country you have to put it back together again, and the cleanup job can take a lot longer than you planned (if you planned it at all). Wingnuts need to grow up. The real world is not "Risk" or "Axis and Allies". Hannity needs to grow up.

Update: Speaking of Iraq, the 57 people killed in two car bomb explosions today would not be counted towards Patreus' measure of violence. Car bombs casualties are not counted in the same category as sliver thin category where he generated the 75% drop.