The crazy fuckers are going for Iran
Retired General Gardiner believes we are already on the way to striking Iran, based on our ongoing specops in Iran and the recent “prepare to deploy” orders given to a bunch of naval vessels that are prime fits for the Persian Gulf.
A few notes:
one, this administration is dangerous and crazy. By “crazy” I mean “sociopaths disconnected from reality who should be institutionalized… also, prosecuted.”
two, the Cheney administration thinks that an attack on Iran is justified, will be supported, will be effective, and will be easy. Just like Iraq, only this time none of those milquetoast CIA analysts will be involved. Flowers and candy for everyone!
three, current DoD war plans call for the American use of nuclear weapons
four, when (if, for the optimists) we launch an unprovoked attack on Iran, we are going to get our asses kicked. Not only our our ships in the gulf sitting ducks for the advanced missiles the Iranians can rain down on them, but all of our troops in Baghdad will have their supply lines cut as the Iranian-backed Iraqis decimate our supply lines. It’s going to be a combination of the Berlin Airlift/Dien Bien Phu and Pearl Harbor and the Italian expierience in Ethiopia 1936 all rolled into one.
five, we have no causus belli. There are no circumstances that would make an attack Just.
We are living under, and supporting by our mere participation in, an illegal, psychotic, rogue regime. That it comes in the trappings of three-piece suits, a yankee with an affected Texas accent, and is wrapped in the red, white, and blue does not make it any less true that our country has become an autocratic regime. Attacking Iran makes no sense strategically, tactically, or even logically (to those of the reality-based community).
I should probably note that I don’t think any sort of attack on Iran is feasible. Which is to say, we can send planes with bombs, but boots on the ground? Not so much. What’s more is that I think the Iranians would/could/should send their Iraqi agents (read: Sadr, et. al.) to attack as soon as they see our carrier group moving in, thus eliminating any chance of us actually attacking Iran as we dealt with a catastrophe in Iraq. Gilliard also has this scenario. That would be Just. It’s also exactly what I would do. Best of all for the Iranians, they’re using cold war proxy tactics against us.
We are a banana republic with nukes.
We have been kidnapped by bloodthirsty delusional megalomaniacs.
May FSM forgive us all.
