War With Iran, Anybody?

Phillip Weiss, who is my idea of a hero of culture, has up on his blog, Mondoweiss, this morning a quotation from David Broder, writing in the NY Times, and salivating for war with Iran. Broder suggests that it will be Obama's "out" from the grisly election that will occur tomorrow. Broder writes:

Here is where Obama is likely to prevail. With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran's ambition to become a nuclear power, he can spend much of 2011 and 2012 orchestrating a showdown with the mullahs. This will help him politically because the opposition party will be urging him on. And as tensions rise and we accelerate preparations for war, the economy will improve.

I am not suggesting, of course, that the president incite a war to get reelected. But the nation will rally around Obama because Iran is the greatest threat to the world in the young century. If he can confront this threat and contain Iran's nuclear ambitions, he will have made the world safer and may be regarded as one of the most successful presidents in history.

Weiss says this proposal should bring "Joy to the World," and a true recovery from our present economic slump. How wonderful! A nice big war with Iran would save everybody's hash.