[LibWhacker]

They "want to go into Iran and destroy as much of the military infrastructure as possible,"

Yes!

"The Bush administration is looking at this as a huge war zone.

We couldn't have defeated Germany just by going into the Rhine. We have to tame the entire region.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"We couldn't have defeated Germany just by going into the Rhine. We have to tame the entire region."

The Iranian military is divided. The old Iranian Republican Guard is still loyal to the Shah. And a large number of the soldiers loyal to the mullahs are mercenaries from outside Iran. Even some of the police in Iran speak languages different than the locals they are policing.

In short, the mullahs don't trust their own people to be loyal. Why would that be?