Feeling Hawkish

The United States stated that they were looking at every diplomatic option they can on the situation in Iran. The US has stated that they would leave the military option on the table, which is not surprising to hear since of course because if you haven’t noticed the hawks out number, the doves. Trusting the administration to talk diplomacy is like trusting your parents after you find out Santa and the Tooth Fairy isn’t real. This brings up a huge quandary.

You have a radical government which denounces the Holocaust and wants Israel wiped off the map. They just pledge 50$ million to Ham as, a government in its own right that supports and ferments terrorism. This to me is where it gets tricky. A nation like this is capable of destroying most of the Middle East. This is the nation that poses a bigger threat then Iraq. Saddam seems like Mussolini to Iran’s Hitler. A strong case can be made that if you were going to start a campaign of regime change it should have started here. The Iranians have little to no true friends in the Mid East. Seems like the White House took the wrong advice and went after the wrong country, this is not news but when you are trying to build support for an operation either diplomatic or covert military action you need support from everyone. Support that the US will never get due to 6 years of my way of the highway attitude coming out of the oval office. It saddens me to think that because of this a nation more radical then any other has the chance to build the ultimate weapon.

Not that I am looking for a military solution. I think that the US and other western nations have a strong chance of building a regime change from the inside. The people of Iran love the west. Walking down the streets of Tehran is like walking downtown in any US city to some extent. The people have there IPODS there Levi’s and I am sure apple pie is being cooked somewhere. Basically a change can happen there again. I believe that if this taken seriously a change can be made with out a shot being fired. Though I don’t see this happening cause this takes time and some people think not much time is left.

In the end the military is going to be used and it will stretch our forces even thinner and solidify our country as a one man show hell bent on change by any means necessary. The thing is that this might be a fight to under take. This nation just doesn’t have anything left in the tank we are tired worn out and bogged down. Another battle is something we can’t handle alone. We need support and support is something we can’t get either here in our borders or abroad. In the end Iran might get the bomb or it might not. I just don’t know if they should have it. And I really don’t know how we can do anything about it.