Imagine...a true Sunni "believer" is supposed to want the destruction of Shiite political Islam. The Iraqi insurgency exists largely because the US is correctly seen as weakening Sunni political Islam relative to Shiite Political Islam over the past 3 years. Remember: when the US soldiers were fighting Sadr's forces in Najaf...the Sunni Iraqi insurgency gave the US soldiers a respite so a maximum amount of Shiite militiamen could be killed by the Americans (similar to the Russians pausing outside of Warsaw in order to allow the Nazis to put down the Jewish uprising there). Theoretically, you could get the average conservative Sunni Muslim Al Jazeera viewer *cheering* for US soldiers as they wipe out the Shiite Mullahs in Iran...all televised in the Sunni arab states and Pakistan.
But this scenario assumes a logical Sunni arab street.
I contend that it is not only an imperative that we remove the head of Shiite political Islam...but we do so in a manner that wins us the respect of the Sunni street for taking their more serious political enemy from them.
[I contend that it is not only an imperative that we remove the head of Shiite political Islam...but we do so in a manner that wins us the respect of the Sunni street for taking their more serious political enemy from them.]
This means that the managers at Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya will have to be consulted and onboard with an Iran liberation...as an offer they personally cannot refuse. With an Iran War, the lives of the managers of the Sunni Arab Stations will have to be pawned. We cannot afford them spewing out left wing "the US is imperialist" garbage at a time like that because this would prolong the war with the Sunnis and probably lead to 40 million Sunnis getting nuked within 10 years (the mixture of leftism and Islamism is too deadly to allow to continue).
Military analyst Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Security and International Studies notes that “Iran has given modernization of its naval forces high priority,” acquiring sophisticated anti-ship missiles from China and Ukraine, long-range submarines from Russia, high-speed attack boats from France and an arsenal of some 2,000 mines. In Cordesman’s view, Iran may have the “potential capability to close the Gulf until US naval and air power could clear the mines and destroy the missile launchers and submarines.”
I would suggest picking up this book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0275965295/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-3469818-9587837#reader-link