(and BTW North Korea, too..... what's up ...)
What's up is that Obama, thankfully, appears to be showing restraint when challenged with sabre-rattling.
His only fumbles so far, in regards to Iran and NKorea have been in regards to articulation (quite surprising given his oratory skills).
Fuck them both.
Bring them on, quite frankly.
If either of those 2 moronic states thinks they can play a game of chicken with our military might - bring 'em on.
This is perfect.
Under Bush, these cowards had to resort to stateless entities to carry out their whims.
If they perceive Obama as "weak", all the better IMO.
Waging war against a stateless enemy is extremely difficult. Given our might, waging war against an Iran or N. Korea, as a nation, insulates us from claims of "disproportionate casualties" and "human shields becoming collateral damage" and ANY other shitty-tactic that is employed by our enemies and lapped up by the useless idiots - the left.
The biggest threat we face is a government such as N. Korea or Iran becoming nuclear and managing to put a small nuke into the hands of a stateless terror organization. If they were to do so, and blow up a big section of Boston in the process, the lefties would be all up-in-arms wanting to protect the rights of these animals, and shit. However, if a long-range missile is launched, that isn't shot-down, by, say, Iran, then lefties would have no problem going in there and turning their sand into glass and making Farsi an extinct language. However, if say Iran, were to arm a terror cell and said cell was to nuke a red-state city, say..Houston, the left would be all up-in-arms over any kind of retaliatory response. In fact, the left would decry any kind of reasonable attempt to go after those who were really behind the attack (I am not talking about the expendables who were behind WTC'93).
In short, I feel a softer approach is pragmatic - it emboldens our enemies to deal with us in the open in lieu of hiding behind statless organizations - less flack from the left when dealing with a nation-state then when dealing with a stateless terror organzaion that the left seems to love so much.
