Some guy named Steve Young at the Huffington Post is all a-flutter about a comment I made on CNN’s Reliable Sources yesterday. I suppose he thinks he’s being very clever. Though at this point, this sort of thing reads like trite lefty boilerplate (perfect for the Huffington Post, by the way) to me.

Anyway, just for the record, here’s the background. While debating the Sy Hersh story about Pentagon plans to attack Iran, I made the entirely conventional point that it would be a scandal for the Pentagon not to have plans to attack Iran. After all preventing states like Iran — indeed, specifically Iran — from getting nukes has been the core of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. I should hope, I said, that the Pentagon has plans to attack Iran, North Korea etc. Heck, it’s their job. In fact, I added, I know that the Pentagon even has plans to attack Canada. Young thinks this is all hilarious or absurd or perhaps merely an excuse to flap his gums about how wrong it is I have a column in the LA Times (the left coast lefties are still quite vexed about that). He says I’ve made news here. But the actual news is this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The US military’s plan to attack Canada is called War Plan Red. It’s been written up in these things called “newspapers” every so often for years. Most recently in an obscure publication called The Washington Post. Stevie may want to track down a copy somewhere.