With What? With What, Bill?
By WILLIAMSON: Aren’t you going out today?
ROMA: With what? (pause) With what, John, they took the leads…
WILLIAMSON: I have the stuff from last year’s…
ROMA: Oh. Oh. Oh, your “nostalgia” file, they’s fine. No. Swell. ‘Cause I don’t have to…
WILLIAMSON: …you want to go out today…?
ROMA: ‘Cause I don’t have to eat this month. No. Okay. Give ’em to me…
Ah yes, so Bill Kristol has come out explicitly in favor of invading Iran. As the Republican Party’s most beloved Democratic Lester Maddox protege once asked, “with what–spitballs?” Perhaps it’s my lack of Straussian training, but I’m rather at a loss to reconcile the simultaneous positions that 1)we need to invade Iran, 2)we cannot “cut-and-run” from Iraq, and 3)it was grotesquely irresponsible to suggest that there was even the slightest possibility of a draft if Bush was re-elected. Where exactly are we getting these troops? Are they growing a group of super-warrior clones at the offices of The Weekly Standard or something?
And Peter Beinart will call critics of this plan unserious…