Bag's Rants

And what are you going to do about it?

Oh dear. Seems after their remote victory in Lebanon the Iranians feel just a little bit emboldened to make a statement ahead of the deadline. Read more here.

Now after our increase in the armed forces we are sending back to Iraq and Afghanistan. Is there in reality anything the US and UK can do to Iran. None of the other Western nations are going to do anything bar talk. The Iranians, despite their obvious stupidity, know this.

The preferred option was for the US or Israel as a proxy to strike the disputed sites from the air. It's still an option but if they think the Iranians are just going to say 'Oh well!' and just carry on as normal they need to seriously look at the world today and ask themselves can we really start something with Iran at the moment? I thought it would be difficult at the best of times but while we are mired down in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon this is Iran's best chance to show the world the West cannot handle everything. If we attack Iran and the middle east all stands up and attacks Israel are we really in the position to do anything?

Of course, if it all escalates out of control and Israel looks like it will be wiped out. They won't go quietly the middle east can become a big sheet of glass and the Iranians gets their wish for entering paradise.

So the question still is. What can we do about it? Ordinarily, I would say better minds than ours will be looking at this now but history is showing that these minds are not in fact working on these problems. None of them are in our governments for a start.

Next week is either going to be extremely interesting or a complete non event. I suspect it will be a non event.

posted by Bag @ 4:04 pm