Essentially, the Iranian regime regards itself as being at war with the United States. So the United States doesn't really have a choice about whether it's at war with Iran. That was the mistake we made, by the way, before September 11th, that al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden had declared a jihad and holy war against the United States, and Bill Cohen, in his famous response in a Clinton cabinet meeting, said oh, it didn't rise sufficiently to the level to be worth a response. By the time it does rise to the level to be worth a response, thousands of people are dead.
Exactly Mark Steyn. Thank you.
6 posted on 04/28/2006 12:13:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan