VULGAR - AT 10:31 A.M. ET:  The great philosopher and intellectual leader, Jerry Lewis, once said it best:  "Bad looks you can change, stupid is forever."

To demonstrate the truth of Prof. Lewis's observation, we have one Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to Jimmy Carter, which should have gotte3n him banned from public life, and rumored adviser to some in the Obama camp.  From The Weekly Standard:

In a little noticed interview with the Daily Beast (presumably little noticed because serious people don't read the Daily Beast), Zbigniew Brzezinski suggests that Barack Obama do more than just refuse to support an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites -- the American president must give the order to shoot down Israeli aircraft as they cross Iraqi airspace:

DB: How aggressive can Obama be in insisting to the Israelis that a military strike might be in America’s worst interest?

Brzezinski: We are not exactly impotent little babies. They have to fly over our airspace in Iraq. Are we just going to sit there and watch?

DB: What if they fly over anyway?

Brzezinski: Well, we have to be serious about denying them that right. That means a denial where you aren’t just saying it. If they fly over, you go up and confront them. They have the choice of turning back or not.

So conjure the image -- the Obama administration sending U.S. aircraft up to protect Iran's airspace and it's nuclear installations from an attack by a democracy that is one of America's closest allies.

COMMENT:  The tragedy, as Weekly Standard points out, is that this scenario might have some support on the left and among self-proclaimed "realists."  And, given Obama's treatment of allies like Britain, Poland, the Czech Republic and Honduras since taking office, the scenario might not be far-fetched.

How far down we seem to be going.

September 20, 2009