Foreign policy as slasher flick

Like the dumb kids who decide they really are tough enough to spend the night in that abandoned chainsaw factory/insane asylum/slaughterhouse, the Bush adminsitration is now planning to send a third aircraft carrier to the Gulf (reputed to be The Sign to Watch For) and giving bogus defense briefings linking Iran to IEDs in Iraq without any substantive evidence.

Naturally, the media see nothing to be alarmed about. Everyone knows that chainsaw factory isn't REALLY haunted.