A parallel new Bush doctrine is emerging, in the last days of the soon-to-be-ancien regime, and it needs to be strangled in its crib. Like the original Bush doctrine -- the one that Sarah Palin couldn't name, which called for preventive military action against emerging threats -- this one also casts international law aside by insisting that the United States has an inherent right to cross international borders in "hot pursuit" of anyone it doesn't like.
They're already applying it to Pakistan, and this week Syria was the target. Is Iran next?
Peacenik wonders if Iran would accept "hot pursuit" by the U.S. into its territory. Peacenik wonders what the effect would be of an escalating military crisis with Iran just days before the vote. Bush has never taken a moderate or honourable course when he had a chance to placate the hard neocon right. With their power dwindling will Bush roll the dice. Peacenik wishes Peacenik was confident something very weird wasn't going to happen, very soon.
