"I'm beginning to have a different opinion of Richard Perle and it isn't toward the good side."
Welcome aboard. Perle and others hawked the war in Iraq..now on the turn of a dime..they want us to take out Iran without a blink while we are still trying to secure Iraq!!
They (Krystal included) sound like spoiled little children that did not get their blinky! What do they do? They start to undermine our President at every turn. Instead of looking forward with an understanding that this is a war that will take many decades to win and supporting the types of conservatives that in the long run will bring it about...they sit and whine like spoiled rotten children that scream for their ice cream when it is front of their face! Screw eemmmm.....
Iraq will never be secured, you must know that by now. It takes a madman with an iron hand like Saddam to keep those animals 'secured'. They are an archaic people who are a real throwback to medieval times, and their tribal warfare against each other has become so much a part of their way of life that it isn't going to change any time soon.
The hatred between their rival factions, sunnis, shiites, kurds is as ancient and deep as the hatred between Israel and the Palisitians. This hatred won't be appeased by a forced 'democracy', and the rivals will forever be murdering each other for revenge or for power. So maybe it is time to let go of Iraq and deal squarely with Iran, which is a much bigger threat to the world right now.
For all the bluff and bluster that Iran is spewing out, I believe that if we mass our forces against them in a dramatic and awesome showdown then they will back down immediately and comply with the world's demands. And if they don't, then the Iranian regime will come to a bloody end and their nuclear manufacturing facilities will be destroyed. Any further delaying of dealing militarily with Iran is a huge sign of unwillingness and weakness, and Iran will only become more emboldened by our inaction.