Hey, I'm with you. Now we just need you and about 300 others like you in congress, and we can get this show on the road.
Seriously, we have to do something. I fear we will do nothing and just hope Israel will do it, so we can condemn her publicly while we applaud her privately. You can see from the tone of most of the posts on this thread that everyone hopes Israel will do the dirty work, because almost everyone knows what would happen politically if we do it.
But the fact remains that while Israel is well capable of handling any fight anywhere within reach of her territory, we are best suited for the kind of long-reach bombing campaign it would take to shut Iran down.
But such a thing will mean war beyond what we have done in Iraq, and our politicos are losing their will to keep even this going as elections draw near. We are winning in Iraq, it has gone masterfully in my view, and our pols are losing their nerve.
Bush hasn't, he's still determined to take it right to the end. But almost no Democrats are with him, and an increasing number of Repubs are losing their nerve. Launching a new operation into a new country is almost guaranteed to spook our pols into paralysis, they aren't the bravest people out there.
Our best chance is after the 2006 elections, if Bush is able to hold his base together in Congress and the Senate.
Iran is vulnerable; it is a collection of regions, each with its own ethnic nationality, each which has at one time or another dreamed of independence. We should be making plans to take Iran apart at the seams, but that is going to take some very steady nerves. After Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld, I don't see that kind of nerve out there.
I don't see that Bush has the nerve.
Giuliani- and only Giuliani- might?