Le Shorter: Give Us A Break, Mitt

Corporate scion Mitt Romney in his home state of Michigan yesterday made another hackneyed and maudlin appeal to misguided patriotism. The only 'accomplishment' of the current Republican Regime is to embroil us in a foreign policy fiasco of historic proportions. Yet Republican candidates insist on buttressing the outgoing decider in chief by repeating the theme that only they can be trusted with the nation's security. The Iraq War has seriously undermined our security, reduced our influence in the world, curtailed our civil rights, established an offshore gulag, allowed the commission of war crimes and killed tens of thousands of innocents. With a record like that, who needs them?

In a related development, the Navy admitted that it could not be sure that threats made by radio came from Iranian speed boats that came close to US destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz. A spokesman said,
“We’re saying that we cannot make a direct connection to the boats
there. It could have come from the shore, from another ship passing by.However, it happened in the middle of all the very unusual activity, so as we assess the information and situation, we still put it in the total aggregate of what happened Sunday morning. I guess we’re not saying that it absolutely came
from the boats, but we’re not saying it absolutely didn’t.”
Without definitive evidence of an attempted kamikaze attack, the Charlatan issued his own threat saying that Iran would suffer serious consequences if it attacked US warships.