neurotic? or delusional?

Ninety percent of the time Jim Kunstler is one of the smartest, toughest, and most honest cyber pundits who ever posted to a blog. The other ten percent of the time -- and I really find this inexplicable -- he goes off on foolish and ethnically blind Zionist rants. I've never been able to understand how somebody able to get as totally real as this guy is when it comes to, say, the future prices of oil and gas and what they mean, is also capable of acting as a sewer pipe for some of the war machine's and AIPAC's dumber lies, such as the one he repeats this week concerning "Iran's bomb-making capacity."

Ahmedinajad is going to have a very tough time making a nuclear bomb considering his country's five-percent-uranium-enrichment capacity. But, hey, facts are stupid things, as Atrios always says (quoting Homer Simpson, who in his turn was channeling Reagan).

So this week's prize for best commentary doesn't go to Kunstler as it so often does, but to Glenn Greenwald, another perpetual contender, one who frequently walks away with that honor, and who chose yesterday to write on the same topic as Kunstler -- the Great Iranian Satan and how it is menacing us with nuclear bombs it doesn't have. Noting that Sunday's "Meet the Press" star haircut boy David Gregory used such "liberal" information sources as Charles Krauthammer and Newt Gingrich in his questioning of Obama aide Susan Rice about what she knew of Iran's plans to soon nuke us in our sleep, Greenwald ended by drawing the inescapable conclusion, and expressing it better than I've ever previously seen it articulated:

Reviewing the Sunday news shows and newspapers creates the most intense cognitive dissonance: a nation crippled by staggering debt, exploding unemployment, an ever-expanding rich-poor gap, and dependence on foreign government financing can't stop debating how much more resources we should devote to our various military occupations, which countries we should bomb next, which parts of the world we should bring into compliance with our dictates using threats of military force. It's like listening to an individual about to declare personal bankruptcy talking about all the new houses and jewels he plans on buying next week and all the extravagant trips he's planning, in between lamenting how important it is that he stop spending so much. That would sound insane. And that's exactly how our political discourse sounds

So...the answer to the question posed by the title of this post? Delusional.