"President Bush's national security adviser said Sunday that the United States and its allies 'cannot allow the Iranians to develop a nuclear weapon' and warned that President Bush would 'look at all the tools that are available to him' to stop Iran's program."A little late for threats, don't you think? Now that we're ridiculously over-extended, and don't even know if we have enough troops for Iraq, you're NOW making threats to Iran? What "tools" do you propose we use, since we don't have any troops left (let alone fresh troops), send a few cruise missiles down some camel's ass? Or are you Bushies now converts to using the UN, which will only further highlight the hypocrisy of your refusal to internatoinalize the Iraq conflict.
The problem is Bush declared the Axis of Evil two years ago and then decided to take on the least evil of the axis, for false reasons, no less. Now that the real bad guys in Iran and N. Korea are acting up, there isn't a God damn thing we can do for YEARS to come. We do NOT have the troops, nor frankly do we have the money - our increasing costs in Iraq aren't going away any time soon.
This is what is called "imperial overstretch." It's what happens when your empire's hubris kicks into overdrive and you start trying to be den mother to the entire world all at once. Eventually you're stretched so thin that you can't do any one thing well, and your empire collapses in on you. Bush's empire is collapsing big-time. It's time the press starting hitting Condi hard on whether our armed forces can take on a 3-front war, because I don't think any reasonable military person will tell you that they can.
