Peter Beinart and I discuss it in today’s “What’s Your Problem?” Meanwhile, as sort of an exhibit A, Jason Zengerle highlights Ezra Klein’s bombing-is-not-an-option position viz-a-viz Iran. Klein writes, for example:

…Who are these liberal doves who avoid confrontation when avoiding confrontation is impossible, and then seek to act sluggishly and in as muddled a fashion as possible when finally moved to act? Name names, please. I’d like to steal their lunch money.

Isn’t the point ultimately that nobody thinks they’re an unreasonable and unrealistic dove? Just as nobody thinks they’re an unreasonable and unrealistic hawk? Of course folks like Klein who don’t think we should bomb Iran will reject the suggestion they’re starry-eyed pacifists. Of course they’ll come up with rational — or rational-sounding — arguments and paint their opponents as irrational. Nobody ever admits they’re taking the foolish position because they don’t think it’s foolish.