Now this is a funny turn.
I knew there was something shady about that place. I guess this explains the Black Knights mascot. Don’t worry, America- November 3rd, the terrorists lose!
In all seriousness, this is a pretty lame move on Iran’s part. Tit-for-tat when we did basically the same thing, but I don’t see too many people clamoring to be part of Iran’s financial network. It’s just one more tick upward on the thermometer of U.S.-Iranian relations.
Okay, so I can’t honestly recommend a war with Iran (but who gives a toot about my opinion?). We’re stretched thin enough as it is, and we still have a lot of lessons to learn from this conflict. But if I could “report directly to General T. Michael Moseley”, pretty much the coolest guy to ever grace the USAFA stage and the man that’ll shake my hand when (if?) I graduate, I’d be stoked. If I could do it thinking up creative ways to fight a war, it’d be even cooler.
An aside: this isn’t really journalism- but then again, this isn’t really news. Anyone with half a brain could have told you that we would be preparing strategy for a war with Iran. Heck, we’re ready for war with Azerbaijan! Hands up if you’ve heard of Azerbaijan in the last two weeks. How about the last year?
We’re strategizing wars with just about anybody capable of picking up a stick. We’ve got to- that’s how we keep from having our asses handed to us.
Tsunetomo sez: “Win first, fight later.”
Death toll is down almost 50% according to Bill Roggio from the Weekly Standard. Other good news abounds as well: Several significant insurgent captures were made and Iran may be coming to the table at an Iraq-hosted “regional summit.”
On the down side, current theory from National Intelligence is that Iranian leaders probably knew that the newest threat to our troops, Explosively Formed Penetrators (more on these later) were being supplied to Iraqi insurgents.