OP-ED: "Middle East Volcano," by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, 21 September 2007, p. A19.

Krauthammer is now officially jacked about a looming showdown with Iran.

Ahmadinejad, who has no control over Iran's nuclear program or its military, is--as always--described as "apocalyptic."

Funny how we always feared the atheist Sovs and Chinese regarding use of nukes (now, of course, we rewrite or forget our history and remember them as coolly rational types with no such designs) and now we freak over prospect of Shia bomb even though we've quietly lived for many years with a Sunni bomb in a state full of radicals and which now serves as al-Qaeda's global headquarters and has a scary history of proliferation (Pakistan). Certainly, OBL's made some wild verbal threats in his day, and pulled off some serious stuff, so clearly we should freak every time Ahmadinejad shoots off his mouth, even though he's likely out of power just a few months after Bush and Cheney.

But these are meaningless side points. By all means, no one should stand in the way of the officially denied bandwagon.

More comparisons to Hitler, I say. Everyone knows we're dead serious whenever we trot out Hitler analogies.