There are a small group of people in this country who are actively trying to start a broader war in the Middle East. They're just a handful of people, mostly neo-conservatives, who are trying to goad the rest of us into fighting a bloody, counterproductive and intractable war for their purposes.
Why would we want to get dragged into a bigger war in the Middle East? That's absolutely nuts. We don't have enough troops to keep anything resembling order in just one Middle Eastern country, Iraq. Iran is four times as large as Iraq. Imagine if we had five wars like Iraq on our hands. Let alone Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.
If I were you, right now I'd be pretty incredulous. Really, there are warmongers in the US who want us to get involved in more wars in the Middle East? That seems very hard to believe. As former sportscaster in New York, Warner Wolf used to say, "Let's go to the videotape."
First, we start with fan favorite, Bill "The Warmonger" Kristol telling us once again that we have to use force in Iran, that diplomacy is useless and it will be easy to win in Iran. Watch for yourself.
Then, we have Rush Limbaugh telling us that the war in Israel is "a gift to the world" because it allows us to get involved in an even bigger war in the Middle East. Listen to it for yourself.
Old friend Newt Gingrich, not wanting to get left out, ups the ante by gleefully talking about the start of World War III. Watch it for yourself here.
Then he explains that he calls the conflict WWIII for political reasons. People will be more willing to engage in a wider war if you sell it to them as if they're already in a war. Brilliant. The old professor can teach a course in "How to Start Wars 101." Read about his plan here.
You can turn Fox News Channel on almost anytime of day now and find another so-called expert telling us why we must go to war right away. They want to capitalize on the war momentum. So, Stephen Colbert put together a video clip of just some of the experts on Fox calling for World War III. Watch his hilarious segment on it here.
Neil Cavuto has the business angle for Fox News Channel. Here we might hear about how a war in the Middle East might cause gas prices to go higher or cause a drop in the markets. Nope. War only helps everybody. He brings on so-called business analysts to tell us how war would help the economy and lower gas prices. I'm not joking, and neither are they. Check it out here, here and here.
But nobody does wars like John "War on Christmas" Gibson, so he gets in on the act by having neo-con stalwart Jim Woolsey come on to talk about how we have to attack not only Iran, but also Syria. If we're going to start a war, we might as well have fun, and attack just about every country we can name in the Middle East. Watch it here.
After watching all this, if you're wondering whether they're right and it might do us a world of good to start a world war in the Middle East, then check us out on The Young Turks as we rip these idiotic ideas apart. We take on Jim Woolsey's lust for war here.
The boogeyman is real, and he is a neo-con. If we don't realize what they're up to, they'll suck us into an even more disastrous war before we know what hit us. We must be vigilant. We must understand what they're trying to achieve. And we must stop them.