Atrios and Matt Yglesias have a good effing question of commentary about the Mid-East turmoil. "'Both attacks were green-lighted by Iran.; Who in Iran? By what process? By whose authority? When? Who told you?"

Matt:

It all looks to me like a story we've seen before. If you've been paying attention, a lot of people have been agitating for the United States to commence more active efforts to overthrow the Syrian and Iranian governments for some time now. Then some stuff happened and -- miraculously and without real evidence -- that stuff's occurence is suddenly the reason we need to implement the very same policy that was being pushed for previously. I'd like to see some proof.

We'll see. While people would clearly be up in arms if any sort of ground war were proposed, I'm pessimistic that regular Americans care enough to exert the necessary political pressure to prevent Bush from bombin Iran. I'm also pessimistic that the Fourth Estate will act as any sort of check here, either by creating a "Conventional Wisdom" that works against such plans, or by fanning popular sentiment to generate the afformentiond pressure.