First a small focus on the incendiary words Charles Krauthammer uses in arguing against Barack Obama’s steady and unruffled policy towards Iran. The title to Charles Krauthammer’s article is “Obama’s Immoral Silence,” and just from that we get a hint of Krauthammer’s panicky and irresponsible hyperbole, for Barack Obama has not in fact been silent concerning the elections in Iran. Yes, Krauthammer’s argument is insulting in its use of straw men and exaggeration, but that’s nothing surprising with the neocon bunch. Here’s just one of those irresponsible passages from Krauthammer’s article today, from the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Then, after treating this popular revolution as an inconvenience to the real business of Obama-Khamenei negotiations, the president speaks favorably of “some initial reaction from the supreme leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election.”

Where to begin? “Supreme leader”? Note the abject solicitousness with which the American president confers this honorific on a clerical dictator who, even as his minions attack demonstrators, offers to examine some returns in some electoral districts - a farcical fix that will do nothing to alter the fraudulence of the election.

Krauthammer’s assumption is that Barack Obama honors the leaders behind the scenes in Iran, when there’s simply no indication of that at all. The use of the phrase “Supreme Leader,” a phrase used by everyone when discussing the clerics who actually run Iran, is an excuse for Krauthammer to attack, attack, attack, and attack is exactly what Krauthammer wants as policy, though this time, instead of supporting a military attack, as he did in Iraq, Krauthammer wants some sort of rhetorical attack. What a freaking putz.

Charles Krauthammer advocated the invasion of Iraq on various occasions for various reasons. He was vocal about the connections of Iraq to 9/11, and was proven wrong, he was vocal about the notion that Iraq had WMD, and was proven wrong, and he was vocal that conquering Iraq would be the first step in a Democratizing Domino Theory that would result in free and fair elections throughout the Middle East. Yeah, Krauthammer was wrong there, as well. It is this last theory that he’s pushing as part of his whine to get Barack Obama to step up the rhetoric about Iran.

Yeah, Charles Krauthammer is pounding out the drumbeats of war yet again, and along the way he’s writing irresponsible drivel filled with straw men and whacked out rhetorical accusations. But he does the Philadelphia Inquirer proud representing the conservative cause — that’s what they want, a cadre of conservatives, no matter what dishonest whackjobbery they throw out there, to balance the nonexistent liberal voices on the paper. If the Washington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer want a enocon whackjob frothing at the mouth on their opinion pages, they’ve got one in Charles Krauthammer, a Republican Pundit Gone Wild.