Iran: More gunboat diplomacy

One word: Draft.

 

Seriouly, though, I read this story in the Washington Post and I felt a little better. A little.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/AR2007102502840.html?hpid=topnews

Lots of fun reading on how an attack would send the oil industry, and thus our economy, into a crisis.

 

I'm curious how you figured that. In GWI, Iraq supposedly had the world's fourth-strongest military, with the vaunted Republican Guard leading the way. The entire thing folded like those "Oh-eee-Oh, Yo-oh" guys at the end the Wizard of Oz. It did so again in '03. I suspect Iran -- with the oddly similar-sound Revolutionary guard playing offensive line -- would do much the same. They hate their leadership there. They're in the military out of obligation and fear. If someone throws a bucket of water on Ahmadinejad, I imagine the Iranian soldiers will quickly hand over the broomstick and bow.

But, as in Iraq, it's not the soliders with the government-issue uniforms and rifles we should be worried about.

Fenian_Bastard, as has been said in other forms, it's not the guy with 2,000 nukes aimed at me I'm afraid of. It's the guy with one.

 

So if Iran knows we know they know we know they we know they know we know they know we're planning a pree-emptive attack, who fires the first shot?

 

In a perfect world? No one.

This day and age? Bush.