Pipes: Obama Must Bomb Iran To Save His Presidency

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Daniel Pipes, whose previous interest in Barack Obama centered on his belief that the president was Muslim, is now offering free advice on “how to save the Obama presidency.” To wit: bomb Iran.

“He needs a dramatic gesture to change the public perception of him as a light-weight, bumbling ideologue, preferably in an arena where the stakes are high, where he can take charge, and where he can trump expectations,” writes Pipes in a piece for National Review.

“Such an opportunity does exist: Obama can give orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran’s nuclear-weapon capacity.”

Pipes also warns of Iran launching “an electromagnetic pulse attack on the United States, utterly devastating the country.”

According to Pipes, a war with Iran would also be quick and easy job. “[I]if the U.S.limited its strike to taking out Iran’s nuclear facilities and did not attempt any regime change, it would require few “boots on the ground” and entail relatively few casualties, making an attack more politically palatable.”

Contra Pipes, retired Gen. Anthony Zinni (ret.) has said (via Matt Duss):

“After you’ve dropped those bombs on those hardened facilities, what happens next? … Because, eventually, if you follow this all the way down, eventually I’m putting boots on the ground somewhere. And like I tell my friends, if you like Iraq and Afghanistan, you’ll love Iran.”

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