wrong side of the border
See #2,
"We know they are doing this. Why do we accept it?" McInerney said. "For every [improvised explosive device] that goes off in Iraq, a bomb should go off in IRAN."
Not sure which side of the border you want us on - but the guy DID say to bomb into Iran. Makes sense to me - don't need another Ho Chi Minh Trail just on the other side of a border that we can't touch but that our enemy has no qualms in using. But of course it would turn it even MORE into the libs and MSM ideas of Vietnam and the "incursion" into Cambodia.