An intriguing comment from Michael Goldfarb in this American Prospect roundtable on the future of the Air Force:
I love the bit about taking apart government institutions that “outlive their usefulness or fail as experiments,” and I’m loathe to discourage the Prospect from staking out such a bold, Reaganesque position, but the Air Force makes a lousy target for our new consensus push against useless government bureaucracies. Maybe we could first go after the CIA or the Department of Education?
Did I miss the memo where the right wing declared war on the CIA? I understand there was that whole Valerie Plame unpleasantness, but this is the first I have heard even jokes about dismantling the CIA. Is this a new thing, or was I not paying attention? I remember rumblings about there being an ‘internal war’ at CIA and State, but I dismissed that as the crazies who just have a tantrum every time anyone even dares question the wisdom of Bush and his inner circle.
Or have the neo-cons just decided that intelligence gathering agencies run by people more scrupulous than Doug Feith get in the way of launching wars, and as such, need to go?’
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BTW, Daniel Larison points out that the recent poll stating 52% of the public supports a military strike against Iran is actually a dip from just 9 months ago.