Holding a press conference during such an action should receive a better reception if the nation was given advance notice and the time to consider the possibility that the government is giving serious consideration to taking these steps.

Especially if such information made us aware that the administration is not blindly charging forth without ensuring there is no other workable option. Given our present environment, this concern will be front and center.

These types of articles could be a way to indirectly talk to the nation about all the options on the table.

Knowing the opposition that would come from Pelosi and crew; gaining a national consensus would help.

They guage our public to be tired of the Iraqi war, and highly reluctant to initiate yet another such effort. This gives them a huge advantage in talk-talk, since the worst won't happen, war-war, if they maintain their current positions.

So, there is no progress in talks to be had, without significantly more military muscle being shown in their region. The list of gimmies from the West grows in their favor. More talk-talk means more gimmies, and more time to achieve nuclear capability. As the time passes, more pacifists try to convince us that the Iranians having nukes isn't so bad after all. This thought further emboldens the Iranians.

The only leaders that have the gumption to face this situation and do what is needed are Bush and McCain. I shudder to think what the world may come to if either Obama or Clinton gain the White House.

Buglar, sound the retreat!

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Carter just tried the back door with Iran's proxy. How did that work out?

Dude.

That's what Neville Chamberlain said. Don't you mutts ever learn?

Grow a pair.

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The rest of the country is largely unpalatable. So this invasion would be mainly economic and symbolic. It would be easily withdrawn as well.

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We learned to play the nuclear game during the Cold War and developed our theory of strategic deterrence around the idea of mutually assured destruction. We threatened to wipe the other guys off the face of the map if they launched a nuclear strike against us and left the option on the table to strike them first. This brinksmanship came dangerously close to being tested, most notably with the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it otherwise worked.

Only one problem with that idea. The Soviets, for all their stupidity, did not suffer from a suicide-bomber mentality, that they were all going to be rewarded in heaven for killing infidels. Consider that Iran is working toward Nuclear weapons capability, despite having no rockets that can get such a weapon far enough downwind to prevent radiation problems for it's own territory. Surely, a suicidal attitude, and one vastly different from anything we faced during the cold war.

The kind of war we have fought so far in Iraq and Afghanistan should, if nothing else, be solid enough indication that strategies we've used in the past will simply not work, or worse, will work to our the advantage of our enemy.

It seems clear that Iran is the central supporter of terrorist activities and unrest in the region. It doesn't take a great deal of thought to determine our next course of action. 20 years gone, now, such evidence as I've posted here alone would have resulted, rightly, in a military response against Tehran which would make 'shock and awe' look like a tea party. We delay such response now, at our own peril, I think. The centrifuges, after all, continue to spin in the underground facility in Iran.

Read into that what you will.

Marcus

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I seem to recall reading that, during the Iraq/Iran war, the Mullahs sent battalions of unarmed teens, as mine detectors and bullet absorbers, ahead of its troops. Then again, this may just have been Iraqi propaganda.

Just taking the coastal areas might be problematical. The Iranian coastline stretches for 2440 Kilometers.

WRT to the US military high command. I agree that the generals you refer to do seem to spend more of their time fighting for the status quo rather than how best to utilize available resources. In the final analysis they do what they are told or retire.

With Westmorland we seem to forget he won the 1968 Tet Offensive. He was also doing quite a bit of the tactics later attributed to his replacements.