David Broder Is A Monster

The Dean of Washington Elite Village Wisdom suggests Obama attack Iran to spur economic growth.

He says he's not suggesting this, but reading his column in the Kaplan Test Prep Post today, that is EXACTLY what he is suggesting.

Uh, Herr Broderness, we're already embroiled in two wars that we have put the federal credit card, adding trillions to the federal debt.

How does attacking a third country (one that is significantly bigger and more powerful than Iraq, btw) get the economy rolling again when that war will have to be put on the federal credit card too?

And leaving aside the irrationality of the economic argument, how about the morality of it?

What is wrong with a person who suggests starting a war is a good way to spur economic growth?

What terrible, awful things lurk in his heart and why is he given a prominent place to give voice to his demons?

Seriously, it's time to send Herr Broderness to the park bench where he can sit with the ghosts of Walter Matthau and Ossie Davis and talk about the good old days when you could launch a police action to spur economic growth without anybody other than a few dirty stinking hippies blinking twice.