There was a bit too much of this going on this morning not to comment on it. Browsing some of the cable news outlets, I saw several White House officials and guest commentators expressing concerns over the activities of the weekend. Some, including John Kirby, were warning against the possibility that a strong response by Israel could cause the situation in the region to “spiral into a regional war in the Middle East.” I was rather flabbergasted and I clearly wasn’t the only one. At National Review, our friend Jim Geraghty expressed the appropriate level of disbelief when a CBS News correspondent invoked the same language. You no longer need to worry about the situation spiraling into a regional war. The regional war is already here.
Despite what a lot of ominous voice-overs during B-roll will tell you, you don’t have to worry about the Middle East spiraling into a regional war….
