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"What's next?"

Well, if the following is true,...

"Bush rejected that assertion Wednesday. He said he lacked the authority to order such attacks, and insisted that he would have to first consult Congress before launching strikes against Iran."

...then our leadership is only going to try to stop Iranian attackers as they get into Iran. It's like the tactic used by the Dutch boy in the story. He put his finger in a dike and thereby expected to stop a flood. That's what our politicians and some of our generals are doing. They are receiving a flood of nagging from the noisy kind of constituents who are close to them. In essence, they're running around and putting their fingers in dikes instead of finishing the War.

On the bright side, the War will be finished one way or another, sooner or later. If flashes of political courage miraculously and spontaneously happen, we might come out of it completely intact. If not, then the Islamists will bring the more intense part of the War to our left/liberal major cities. Metaphorically speaking, many of the dikes will be smashed, and we'll have to stop the flood by destroying its source (what should have already been done).