COMMENTARY | With the war in Iraq over and Afghanistan operations serving no purpose, according to info gleaned from these McClatchy and Associated Press stories, it gives me a chuckle when I hear the United States reasserting itself as a Pacific military power. I thought we were a global war machine.
With two wars ending and the staggering $700 billion U.S. military budget needed a new target fast, the vast Pacific seemed like a great idea. As it turns out, though, the Pacific is boring and rather peaceful these days. So, those shifty U.S. generals abruptly decided to send 2,500 troops to vacation in Australia as a show of seriousness about the matter while simultaneously re-aiming their budgets at much more exciting targets, with all guns pointed towards IRAN.
Unfortunately, we might not get to see the usual CNN televised guided missile explosions we're all used to gawking at in return for our hard earned tax dollars.
And like a thief in the night, Israel and the U.S. may already be waging a successful war against Iran that is not so shocking or awe-inspiring and is barely raising eyebrows. I surely expected Armageddon to be a lot more exciting.
The Obama Administration and Israel have been staging a comprehensive military operation using spies, drones and a possible Fifth Column within Iran which creates social, political and media confusion that psychologically paralyzes the country and its ability to respond. Meanwhile, Israel and the U.S. buy time to gear up for a possible precision bunker busting missile attack on all known Iranian nuclear assets which would forever end Iran's nuclear parity ambitions, just in case. Finally, a cost effective military strategy … very 21rst century!
A quick look at recent events reveals, according to AFP, that a U.S. drone was shot down over Iran, the U.K. Embassy invaded in Tehran, Iranian diplomats getting expelled from Western Allied Countries. Network crippling computer viruses plaguing Iranian Nuclear bomb makers, mysterious explosions inside Iran with the Israelis wryly smiling with their hands up with the "Don't look at us, we didn't do it" routine. There have been assassinations, accidents and other tactical operations that separately look like random incidents, yet collectively make it clear that war is being waged.
Does an Israeli engineered fifth column exist within Iran? Have the latest attacks on Iran's nuclear infrastructure point towards a secret force working on behalf of the Israelis moving throughout Iran at will. A fifth column organized, cultivated, motivated and controlled by U.S. Intelligence and Israeli Mossad while the Iranians don't even know it. Wow! Maybe this will be one of the most successful Israeli-U.S. cooperative missions of all time, more successful than Hollywood. A quiet war without creative destruction means no bombs; no bullets, no mass casualties and we still see an end to Iranian nuclear capability. Now that is a budget friendly way to wage war that we can all approve of. In fact, with that kind of success Obama is certain to be reelected.
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