Lessons Learned

Someone I didn't notice that yesterday The Washington Post ran an editorial that didn't just endorse the Bush administration's loopy decision to label a branch of the Iranian government a terrorist organization, but actually said "it seems to be the least the United States should be doing, given the soaring number of Iranian-sponsored bomb attacks in Iraq" and that the Revolutionary Guard "is waging war against the United States and trying to kill as many American soldiers as possible."

This stuff keeps driving me crazy. If Fred Hiatt (and National Review and Joe Lieberman) thinks we should attack Iran, they should come out and say it plainly and make the argument. That seems to be the obvious implication of the idea that Iran "is waging war" against us already, but nobody wants to draw the implication.