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I am sorry Pukin but that is simply Chicken Little hysteria. It is going to make those producing it look absurd in about 30 days. Counter Insurgency (AKA Counter Terrorism) is not Total War. Trying to inflate the one into the second would be a gross error politically and militarily on our part.

I understand the desire to simply end this war that started in 1979 with Iran by kicking the crap out of them now. Problem is you do not have either the political consensus nor military power in place to do it.

We are in the position the allies were in the spring of 1943. We had just finished annihilating one front of the Axis in North Africa. The "World War 3" crowd are basically advocating that we commence the invasion of Europe this summer. (Take out Iran)

What Bush and Co are doing is the wiser course. They are taking out the weaker power (Syria) right now. Thus like he Invasion of Italy in 1943 this current campaign is eliminating the weaker power leaving Iran (like it did Nazi Germany) militarily and politically isolated.

I understand your professional warrior's instinct to go for the jugular but it simply is not militarily nor politically in the cards. In War, like much else in life, what is desirable is not always what is feasible. In war, like love, timing is everything.