It's you who's ignoring reality - - - and proving it by resorting to name-calling. Sorry if you can't stand that someone doesn't agree with you, but there are a lot of us who've looked at the facts objectively.
"There's a bloody mess in Iraq, the countrys' elected leaders are pro-Iran (a great victory for us, that), and our borders are open to nuke-armed terrorists."
What gives you that idea?
They just passed a liquor license law in Iraq, for hecks sake.
We have 150k troops in Iraq - Iran only has a few terrorists who are killing Iraqis. There is no love lost between the 2. Cite some sources!
As for the borders, see my Tagline. On that note, our borders are huge. We have an open society. Nuclear materials are obtainable in the US, you don't have to sneak it in over the border. And then what do you do about the coastline? We have lots of it.
Additionally, the 9-11 terrorists came legally on visas, they didn't sneak in over the border. So did Richard Reid. What makes you think that closing the border will deter terrorists?
If you mean by Pro-Iran that they communicate with Iran. Then that makes our job a lot easyer.
If you don't understand what we are doing then you will have no idea what I am talking about.
For being a freeper all these years I am very disappointed in you. Really I am.
If the Soviet Union was blowing up our military ships and blowing up our buildings in different cities we might have seen a full scale war with the Russians during the Cold war. Don't you think?