From Jeff Childers .

My current working hypothesis is that, efforting to prepare the 2024 political ground, the Biden Administration plans to ditch the Ukrainians in favor of a new-and-improved Middle East war that looks to the Biden team a lot more winnable before the election than would be a wintery slog against the Russians.

Along those lines, the liberal Hill ran a wildly rabid pro-war National Security op-ed yesterday headlined, “Israel is beginning to cross the Rubicon in the Gaza Strip.” It should have read, “The Hill Crosses the Rubicon in its Pea-Sized Brain.”

The article began promisingly enough, with a bold declaration about the Biden Administration’s abject failure, a sentiment that any of us could agree with:

Biden’s entire Mideast foreign policy is now in a complete shamble.
A truer word was never spoken, although I might quibble with whether Biden even had a foreign policy in the first place to go into a shamble. If he did have one, he hasn’t explained it to anybody yet. But let us not pick the threads apart.

Anyway, after that promising start, the article’s logic began flying off the rails faster than a pack of monkeys riding a merry-go-round. The Hill’s national security editors urged the U.S. to go to war with Iran, right now, or at least teach those crazy mullahs a lesson they won’t soon forget:

It is essential that (Joe Biden) and his administration now accept that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are America’s strategic fight in the Middle East. The Biden administration’s continued unwillingness to directly confront Iran – the mullahs and the IRGC – keeps sending the wrong message.
We are already at the point of no return.
Biden needs to make it clear to Iran that any future attacks on American forces – the Pentagon estimates that at least 20 attacks have taken place over the last two weeks – will be met with devastating consequences, and that the U.S. will consider any attack by Iranian supported proxies as an attack by Iran itself.
“Devastating consequences?” What on Earth is the Hill thinking about? On the one hand, the liberal magazine is calling for peace talks and a ceasefire in Gaza. On the other hand, it runs op-eds basically daring Biden to instruct Iran on some “devastating consequences?”

Never forget: liberals are NOT peaceniks. They LOVE wars. They only embrace peace when it’s a politically convenient tool.

This weekend, military commenter Scott Ritter suggested Biden’s $106 billion war funding request, with the majority of funds — $61 billion — earmarked for Ukraine, was intended to deliberately provoke Congress. Pigs get fed, but hogs get slaughtered. In other words, the ask was SO big and SO outrageous and SO unaffordable that Congress was certain to deny it, and Biden could then ease into the blame game like an old man sliding into a warm bath.

Don’t blame me, Biden will say. I requested money for Ukraine but the stingy Republicans denied it. Blame them!