“...not with a bang, but a whimper...”
Wonder what Panetta will do....resign, as an earlier thread suggests he’s threatened?
Every hundred years or so, the gentlemen of the West had to sally forth to trim back the worthy oriental gentlemen, lest they overrun the garden. Unfortunately, the West is running out of gentlemen who are willing to go out and do that, and the hedge is out of control.
At the same time, thanks to our oil money, the worthy oriental gentlemen are now able to equip themselves somewhat better than they were able to in the past, and again thanks to our oil money, they now have increased and multiplied to a very dangerous point.
We have to plan our very own Battle of Lepanto somewhere and deliver a smackdown that will last quite a few generations. I say, how about Iran?
Target: The Well of the 12th Imam. The Shiites are looking for an Armageddon and martyrdom. Let's provide them with that which they want. With mushrooms.