“U.S. military is almost ham strung in two little mideast counties…”
I agree with all you said except this statement. They are not militarily hamstrung they are politically hamstrung. The job of the military is to break stuff not be policemen. The problem is a bad definition of what their mission was supposed to be. In the case of Iran, don’t kid yourself, the US Military unrestrained could flatten them easily. The problem is whether the world court wold accept that and whether the US citizens have the stomach for the casualties involved. People seem to forget how brutal WWII really was and it was over in a matter 4 years. Iraq is nothing compared to that. As much as I dislike the comparison to vietnam, I think the Iraq situation is suffering the same set of issue.
