The Crossed Pond

I mentioned it Here, but Matt Yglesias has a much better quote about Rudy’s stopover in London, which I’ll repost in full:

“Obviously, expressing willingness to hold diplomatic discussions with Iran’s leaders is a political blunder whereas running around the world threatening to attack them like Rudy Giuliani is politically savvy toughness. That everybody knows. So I suppose that by the same token, promising to expand NATO to include Israel — thus committing the United States to the armed defense of the borders of a country that lacks internationally recognized borders — also reflects the politically savvy toughness rather than, say, a dangerous ignorance of what NATO is or how it works or international relations more broadly.”

Rudy is almost literally advertising, as his campaign promise, a World War. Attack Iran, commit to military intervention in defense of Israel every time she’s attacked, and God knows what else. Can you imagine?

And he’s winning.