Iran. British Marines and Sailors. Saber rattling. What a great and total mess! We have a century old mix of colonialism. There’s the bit about the CIA overthrowing the first really democratically elected government in the history of the middle east, replacing it with a monarchy, and doing it because of worries about said democraically elected government not being anticommunist enough. Strangely, no one considered the fact that a majority of Iran’s citizens might resent this. That they might overthrow the monarchy 30 years later and declare the USofA a “great Satan”. Of course, by that time, nobody here remembered the overthrowing of democracy there. USA! USA! USA! We was wronged! Sanctions! Bomb Iran! Let’s elect an actor to be president and never even consider that he might just be playing another ROLE! Thank goodness it’s Morning in America *cue stirring, sappy music*

Now, here we are at the beginning of the end. We can’t win a war against Iran. And I don’t mean that Iran has any chance of defeating us. The USA will be able to claim another Mission Accomplished moment. It’s just that the consequences of such a victory would be dire. Iran is a country of varied terrains. Mountains, deserts, and planes. We know how well we’ve done in securing the mountainous regions of Afganistan. Iran is not a country that’s short on money. They’ve bought some very high end weapons systems from Russia and China. 1500 mph antiship missiles. The USA Aegis naval missile defense system is designed to intercept 500 mph missiles. They’ve bought super-cavitating 200 mph torpedoes. The Navy’s anti-torpedo systems were designed to stop 60 mph torpedoes. The multitdudes of Iranian Republican Guard fast attack boats aren’t a huge threat to the ships of the USA naval forces, individually. In huge swarms and in suicide attack mode? Much bigger problem!

So, what do you think the government of George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Joe Lieberman, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, gunslinger Jim Webb, and Nancy Pelosi do if just 1 missile or torpedo got through and sank an aircraft carrier with several thousand US sailors aboard? No option is off the table, right? Tell me you’re ready to sit at home and watch CNN/MSNBC/Faux reporting as the world begins to explode, LIVE! Don’t say it could never happen. All of them seem to be determined to witness the end of the world.

I just don’t want them to take me along for the rapture

Kevin