From the London Times [1], this morning:
THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.
Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.
Yeah…. And?
Because we have plans on the books for invasion, means an invasion is imminent? I mean, don’t these people understand that we also have plans on the books for invasion of every other country on the planet, including Canada, for pity’s sake?
Of course, the lefty blogs are all over this one. They apparently don’t understand what strategic planning is, either. Or perhaps they do, and it’s simply prudent to scream when the remainder of the idiots in the pack do.
Personally, I would consider such an attack prudent. Iran has made their goals known. They’ve told us repeatedly what they’re going to do with those nuclear weapons once they are developed. Is there anyone outside of the usual not jobs in the democratic party, who think we should wait until they make good on that threat? How many of these will be screaming at whoever is in the White House, that they didn’t do their job of protecting the American people from such attacks , after the first few million die in the first attack?
Is there anyone who thinks that the Iranians can be negotiated with, given their current power structure?
Bottom line is I don’t think an invasion of Iran is forthcoming, in the immediate future. That having been said, it is quite prudent to plan for it against the event of it being needful. The white house, and the pentagon, would not be doing their job properly, if such a plan didn’t exist.