Logistics; that’s the key Iran doesn’t possess. It doesn’t matter how “powerful” a nation is, they have to have the ability to project their military might. When England sent a naval task force to retake the Falkin Islands back in the early 80’s, it nearly broke the nation. The US regularly sends out naval task forces, of the same size, on training missions. As far as I know, the US is the only nation on earth that can project its military might globally.

Unless they have air refueling capability, Iranian fighter aircraft are limited to the duration of their internal fuel cells. Taking off with a bomb load severely limits their range and most likely if they can reach Israel, they won’t be able to return to Iran. Iran doesn’t posses the capability to project their military forces much further than their borders. The only forces they can deploy are Suicide Bombers. Also, the moment an Iranian fighter breaks ground, spy satellites and AWACS will have picked them up.

It would only take a few B-2’s to set Iran’s military capability back decades. No need to send in ground forces. We know it, they know it, and the world knows it. So, the question is, why are we allowing these piss-ants to dictate to the world?

There are plenty of good people in the US and Israel who understand perfectly well that Iran is currently engaged in a covert war with the US in Iraq and has declared war against Israel, with several mideast allies lined up to assist. Unfortunately, there are enough people in the way who do not understand the situation for what it is, who actually think there might be a diplomatic solution, primarily on the basis that they want one, and who beleive in the concept that a story having two sides necessarily means that a half-way compromise is always in everyone’s interests. Sometimes, one side is a hundred percent wrong, as is the case here, and compromise, is inappropriate.

Bush should just go on TV and call it for what it is, “Fellow citizens, Iran has been at war with US forces for the past several years in Iraq. They have sent their own troops, weapons, money, materials, and support into Iraq for the express purpose of killing US soldiers on Iraqi soil in a false-flag operation intended to disguise their role in the war. These acts of war were ignored at first in the hopes of a diplomatic solution to their repeated war activities against US servicemen and women in Iraq. They have murdered our soldiers in combat, they have committed acts of war, they have denied it. They are cowards. Now, we make it official: Iran has been at war with the US for several years in Iraq, today, we have brought the war to Iran. As I speak, military targets in Iran are being destroyed by US warplanes.”

In Israel, I’m really shocked that they keep giving territory for no return other than empty promises. It’s time to say to the Palestinian leadership, “We gave up the Golan Heights and the West Bank on the condition that a permanent cease-fire and normalized relations ensued. This has not happened. You have violated the conditions of the agreement, and will now be ejected from those territories forcibly. As for Iran, there’s no time like right now to deal with their craven war threats. Al-Baradei, with all due respect (not much) just isn’t important enough to hold up any of these things for.

The region will erupt into war, possibly involving Iran, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Russia, North Korea, China, and America; but sometimes when your house has become a roach motel, it’s time to fumigate, even if it means sleeping in a hotel for a few weeks.

Once they get a nuclear weapon the table turns. Stomp them now and hard. Prepare for the mosquitoes of Humas and Hezbolla.

The overarching question: is it worth it now? The overarching question later: was it worth it in a global context?

We can flex our muscles as desired — but we a mere percentile of the Giant we once were thanks to a succession of presidents.

BZ