norman podhoretz is praying for the united states to attack iran

norman podhoretz, one of the co-founders of the neoconservative movement who just happens to be jewish, is praying for the united states to attack iran. i know this story is more than a week old, but still... what kind of crazy fucked-up weirdo prays for innocent people to be killed? please, norman podhoretz, next time, just pray for your own death, not somebody else’s. it is people like him who discredit religion, by giving supposedly divine backing to the senseless killing of innocent people. of course the old testament is filled with examples of times god gave divine backing to the killing of innocents. which is why i would advise against being a part of any religion that considers it holy scripture, unless absolutely necessary. but at least moral absolutism must be thrown out, if you believe in biblical literalism, because if the rule that murder is wrong has a ton of exceptions, then there really are no moral absolutes, and we are just left with moral relativism. if you believe in moral absolutism, you have to reject the bible, because it goes against moral absolutism. unless you have a really fucked-up set of absolute moral rules, that is. like if you are like, whatever god does is moral and good. but that is like president richard nixon saying anything he does is legal because he is president. it is just not the way things work. even the powerful must be held accountable for their actions and judged by the same standards as everyone else. so if god is good, his actions must be righteous and good. and that means that god must behave in a completely different manner than what the bible says, unless you have a nixon/dubya-esque view of executive privilege. but if you have that kind of view of things, then the golden rule for you would be whoever has the gold makes the rules. not very idealistic, not really the moral high ground. it is the height of insanity to attack iran while we are already getting our asses handed to us in iraq. only a neoconservative would be stupid enough to do such a thing. but you know how neoconservatives are. they are the stupidest people in the world, because they think they know better than everyone else, and they are always wrong about everything, yet refuse to reform their ways or even consider accepting reality. they just believe that might makes right, and that whoever is the world’s only superpower must have all that power because they are morally superior to everyone else. pure insanity. people like norman podhoretz ought to be committed to an insane asylum. actually, the entire wall street journal editorial board belongs in an insane asylum, in straitjackets, along with everyone at the weekly standard and the washington times, and most of the talking heads at fox news. but i fear most of them are beyond being helped, and are incurably crazy, beyond redemption. it is too bad the neoconservatives still have so much power in the bush administration. if anyone is praying, they ought to pray that bush and cheney are impeached and removed from office, and nancy pelosi is sworn in as president before the end of this year. that is something worth praying for. why? because now joseph lieberman has joined fellow neoconservative norman podhoretz in calling for an attack on iran. joseph lieberman, you do not know how much you are undermining the jewish people, who were once considered a peaceful people. connecticut voters, why did you let this pompous blowhard get re-elected when you had someone much better running against him last fall? idiots. imagine if the 51-49 majority the democrats had in the u.s. senate did not include a 2-faced turncoat who cannot be trusted. but no, the connecticut voters had to put their trust in holy joe, because he had done oh so much for them over the years. thanks for nothing, connecticut. but hey, at least holy joe isn’t promoting mass murder under the banner of the democratic party anymore. he’s an independent now, which really means that nobody wants him inside their political party because everyone knows he is a traitor. all he has left to do is break his electoral promises to caucus with the democrats and officially join the republicans, but i think he is too cowardly to do that. he showed what a coward he was last year when he filed the papers to run as a 3rd party candidate before the democratic primary even happened, and refused to say he would endorse his party’s nominee for senate. he could have stayed democratic if he wanted to, and then he would have won the primary. of course he ended up winning the general election, but only through his guilt trip and his lies and deceit. it is bad enough having the bush administration in office, but people like joe lieberman only make it worse by being enablers of all of bush’s bad behavior.