Letters to the Editor
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@skunkeye...you are forgetting something
The mythical war with Iran is just fearmongering on both sides.
While we do not have the ground forces to meddle with Iran, we DO have a Navy and Air Force that is far from "taxed". The Navy can launch aircraft and cruise missiles without batting an eye. The Air Force can send in B-1s and B-2s, and even B-52s if they get ambitious. There are, no doubt, morons in the Air Force (of which I am a member) that actually believe that they can "win" with air power alone. Air Force brass almost always believe that they can win wars with air power alone. They've believed that shit since the war criminal Billy Mitchell made essentially that claim. Not only are there Air Force brass who believe that shit, there are, no doubt, a number of them just itching to "prove it" by bombing the crap out of Iran.
There can be no doubt as well that Bush and especially Cheney believe the crap too...and are eager to give it a go. They do NOT learn from the mistakes of the past ("Shock and Awe" was a failure). They, no doubt, believe that ground forces in Iraq are safe from retribution by Iranian agents and assorted Iraqi Shia should they give a go to an attack on Iran. These are hardened war criminals and idiots, afterall. They don't give a flying f*ck how many civilians they kill, how many US soldiers get killed. Those are just numbers of no import to Bush and Cheney (and Hadley and Kristol and the other assorted nutcases).
You are underestimating our continued ability, regardless of the Army and Marines being stretched to breaking, to create murder and mayhem on a massive scale by other means.