It would be so fascinating to watch if it weren't so terrifying. Washington is so poisoned now that Congressional votes are based only on the immediate political implications, and not on the real world consequences. They know what their vote means, but it's like watching a child do things he knows he shouldn't do, and yet can't help himself.

Why did you throw that rock?

Um... I don't know.

Our government has just declared the Iranian Army a terrorist organization.

Well, we're in a war on terror, right? How can we not attack them if they're terrorists? You don't want to look weak on terror do you, Mr. Congressman?

Soon, perhaps in a few months, Israel will attack Iran as a supposed response to some kind of threat from that country. Then the money-drenched ties AIPAC has forged with Republicans and Democrats will bear the bitter fruit of an obedient Congress voting to "defend" Israel and launch another war.

And who will we send to fight this war? Iran is roughly three times the size and population of Iraq. How can our government possibly avoid a draft? Are they going to send the soldiers who have already served three tours in Iraq to fight it? Are they going to send in the injured and mentally-destroyed?

I haven't been this afraid for my country since September 11, 2001. But on that day my fear was not of terrorists, but of our own government. I, and millions of others who shared this fear, turned out to be right.

If we invade Iran, then anti-American terror across the globe will explode, whole nations will radicalize in response to our own recklessness, and terrorism might actually become something significant to fear. This is the moment right now when we saw it coming - the war that will propel terrorism through the stratosphere and firmly establish a threat to our nation for generations to come.

Our military will be broken, our national debt like a black hole, our infrastructure in rubble, our economy wrecked, our nation one giant third world country with a tiny elite behind concrete and barbed wire while homemade bombs explode outside. Mark your calendar, this is a red letter day in the history of when our nation turned to shit.