Juan Williams: It just seems to me that you want to go back to the general Kristol-you just want war, war, war... Bill Kristol just has to have some
July 16, 2006

FNS-Kristol-Williams.jpg Juan Williams: It just seems to me that you want to go back to the general Kristol-you just want war, war, war...

Bill Kristol just has to have some of that war. His PNAC vision has been a complete and utter failure which has weakened this country immensely-yet he won't give it up. Juan Williams does manage to call him out on it, but Kristol just throws his hands in the air like nothing matters. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result-only Bill is playing with human lives in his quest to obliterate the Middle East. I use the word obliterate because that's what his philosophy will and is causing.

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KRISTOL: Look, our coddling of Iran — if I can use the neutral term like that — over the last six to nine months has emboldened them. I mean, is Iran behaving like a timid regime that’s very worried about the U.S.? Or is Iran behaving recklessly and in a foolhardy way?

WALLACE: But isn’t that the result of what’s happened in Iraq?

KRISTOL: No, it’s a result of our deducing from the situation in Iraq that we can’t stand up to Iran. I mean, when we stand up over and over and say Iran is shipping Improvised Explosive Devices into Iraq and killing U.S. soldiers, and Syria’s providing a line for terrorists to come into Iraq and kill U.S. soldiers, and that’s unacceptable. That’s not helpful. And then we do nothing about it. When Ahmadinejad says provocative things, continues to ship arms to Hezbollah, and we say, okay, maybe now we’ll give you direct talks. That, unfortunately, that weakness has been provocative. Ahmadinejad feels emboldened. Now we need to show him, and I think the administration has done a good job the last couple of days of showing him, that he miscalculated.

And indeed, this is a great opportunity. I think our weakness, unfortunately, invited this aggression, but this aggression is a great opportunity to begin resuming the offensive against the terrorist groups. Israel is fighting four of our five enemies in the Middle East, in a sense. Iran, Syria, sponsors of terror; Hezbollah and Hamas. Al Qaeda doesn’t seem to be involved. We have to take care of them in Iraq. This is an opportunity to begin to reverse the unfortunate direction of the last six to nine months and get the terrorists and the jihadists back on the defensive.

WILLIAMS: Well, it just seems to me that you want…you just want war, war, war, and you want us in more war. You wanted us in Iraq. Now you want us in Iran. Now you want us to get into the Middle East, where I think there’s a real interesting dynamic at play. I think it’s psychological on the part of Israel and many of its supporters, and I’ll throw you in here. Somehow you see Israel as weak, and you see Ehud Olmert as weak –

WALLACE: He’s the new prime minister —

WILLIAMS: The new prime minister of Israel. And the defense minister as weak. Everybody is weak in the aftermath of Sharon, and so everybody has to prove what a man they are in the Middle East, including — you’re saying, why doesn’t the United States take this hard, unforgiving line? Well, the hard and unforgiving line has been, we don’t talk to anybody. We don’t talk to Hamas. We don’t talk to Hezbollah. We’re not going to talk to Iran. Where has it gotten us, Bill?

Kristol calls it our weakness that emboldened Iran, but the truth is that his policy of wanting to overthrow Saddam has caused our weakness. He repeats the lie that all of al-Qaeda is in Iraq. Please Bill, wake up. The US is fighting a home grown insurgency/civil war.

(h/t Think Progress for the transcript)

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