#2 He totally neglects what SOCOM is almost certainly doing in Iran right now. To put it in perspective, before the Gulf War I air war began, the US and its allies had placed between 20,000 and 30,000 elite ground forces into Iraq and Kuwait. This was before SOCOM in its current form existed, with four to five times less the number of Special Operations personnel we have now.
Right now, Iran is perhaps the #1 "future war" priority at the Pentagon. I could almost guarantee that there are intense, redundant surveys ongoing of anything and everything and everyone connected with their nuclear program. And that this is taking place not just in space, through high altitude recon, but also by ground personnel with very specialized detection and interception equipment.
In addition, teams of agents provacateurs are busily stirring up trouble and making preparations in the northwest Kurdish and Azeri regions, the southwest Arabic regions, the southeast Boloch regions, and in the major cities.
In a sense, we have begun a very hot Cold War with Iran, trying to insure that if war does come about, it ends quickly and decisevely as possible in favor of the US, and that any nuclear materials, missiles, and other WMDs are secured ASAP.
We are all too aware that any attack on Tel Aviv will quite possibly result in a massive nuclear response, and we do not wish this to happen. So it is up to us to create alternatives to this scenario. |