My word! Does President Bush play chess, too? ;) The world, for the most part, hasn't been watching the board being set up.
Next came was Iraq, more airbases and ground troops right along Iran's oil rich Khuzestan Provence ho with discontent against the brutal mullah régime.
On the other side of Iraq's western border lies terrorist infested Syria and their Hizballah proxies with Israel to the south and American forces on the Iraqi-Syrian border. That phase is already underway with Israel's IDF on the all out offensive road which shall eventually led directly to Damascus and 'Dr'Assad, the terrorist's rent collector.
Our Navy controls Iran's southern oil sea-lanes in and out of the Persian Gulf. How geostrategically perfecto!
If President Bush had ever publicly declared the longer range plan to protect America via dismantling Jihad Inc, the radical Dems on the Hill would have gone pinko ballistic and loused up everything - as usually.