Giuliani hires Podhoretz

Rudy Giuliani must be opposed at all costs. He has just hired Norman Podhoretz, the man who wants to unilaterally bomb a country -- Iran -- which has not provoked us to war.

The man who said of the Iraq war: "an amazing success." He waves his fist and declaims, "There were WMD, and they were shipped to Syria. ... This picture of a country in total chaos with no security is false. It has been a triumph. It couldn't have gone better." He wants more wars, and fast. He is "certain" Bush will bomb Iran, and "thank God" for that.

Yes. He said that Iraq "couldn't have gone better". It was bad enough that Giuliani enthusiastically supports torture in violation of domestic and international law, saying things like: "I would tell the people who had to do the interrogation to use every method they can think of" when asked if he would support the use of waterboarding, a technique perfected by the Khmer Rouge, and used by the Imperial Japanese and Waffen SS in WWII. That was bad enough to disqualify him from holding any public office.

But now his senior foreign policy advisor is a man who is clearly deluded about the situation on the ground in Iraq, is clearly deluded about the situation in Iraq pre-war, and wants to start bombing more countries for no particular reason. This clearly eliminates Giuliani as a viable voting option for anyone who cares about liberty, justice, the rule of law, or the international interests of the United States. Which should include everyone.

At this point, Romney seems like the best of a lot of bad options on the GOP side.

Update: Apparently, a lot of Catholics agree that Giuliani must be opposed. (ht: Andrew Sullivan)