[But we want to remain involved in the Muslim world, not just for ten or twenty years but indefinitely.]
Of course. I am starting to have a problem with seeing too many leftist concepts getting dredged on this issue by FReepers:
1) We supposedly have "too much on our plate" in Iraq and Afganistan. Classical leftist argument at DU. Ignores COMPLETELY the fact that Iran is committing acts of war everyday by funding the killing of US soldiers that are giving us, in Iran's hardliner interest, "too much on our plate." If we don't liberate Iran, the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan will continue as a matter of course.
2) The argument that another Cold War would be better than a quick hot war...is bad because the last Cold War brought us Vietnam, Korea, El Salvador. Let them have nukes and then they, and our left wing, will only get louder and more obnoxious and dangerous.
Do you honestly think that it will not take 2 seconds for liberals in the USA to switch from "there is no proof that they have nukes" or "we have too much on our plate" to "don't attack because we will all die if we do. Don't even make them angry! Give them this country and that country. Do what they say!"
People have forgotten the coziness of fidel and tehran. Or hugo and tehran.