Sheepskin Cuff UGG Boot Times: In an editorial, the über-hawkish DC daily echoes John Bolton

Sheepskin Cuff UGG Boot Times: In an editorial, the über-hawkish DC daily echoes John Bolton

(referenced in our last entry here) and calls for a strike against Iran’s Bushehr reactor before fuel

rods are inserted in the plant. Their revised timeline gives the United States or Israel just two days

to act — though they state that it might not be so bad to wait because the radiation-fallout that

Bolton seeks to avoid would be a way for a potential strike to “hinder Iranian attempts to get it back

up and running.” The editors opine that “action is needed,” but admit that it’s unlikely.

NY Times.com: At the Opinionator blog, Robert Wright offers a nuanced reading of Jeffery Goldberg’s

recent Atlantic story on the likelihood of an Israeli military strike on Iran in the coming year (50-

50, Goldberg says). Wright says that while there is a “bit of channeling” Bibi Netanyahu, “the piece

is no simple propaganda exercise.” Wright concludes that while the piece is, if anything, a poor piece

of war propaganda, it is instructive because it answers questions about the weak Israeli public (and

private) reasons for bombing, and also offers the United States a map for constructing a plan to avoid

that scenario, especially given that the piece offers “no sound rationale for bombing Iran.”