Why I would never make a good statesman

Iran is making like one of those annoying little yappy dogs that the elite people carry around in their pockets. Annoying and really hard to do much about because you know that the issues that arise from any actions taken will not really be worth the satisfaction you get from kicking the mutt in the chops.

If it were up to me, I would have had Iran shut down with military blockades within hours of the sailors being kidnapped. Nothing comes out of, nor in to, the country by sea, land or air. And strategic bombing would have started within 72 hours: the presidents house would have been the first target. Like we did to Libya when they were making similar types of actions back in the early Eighties.

One almost gets the sense of a petulant child when they see and hear Iran in action. They are afraid that Iraq is getting too much world attention and so they are making life miserable for everybody.

Then, about a week before the British Sailors were kidnapped, the US/Iraqi forces had a fire-fight with Iranian forces inside Iraq. We haven't heard too much about this as the military is not talking about it, but every indication is that Iran was going to try the same thing with US forces. The US forces, however, threw a wrench into the works when they refused to be taken hostage and returned fire killing Iranian forces.

You have to wonder what Iran really wants with Iraq anyway. Should they even be involved in the rebuilding of Iraq? These countries have been at war with each other several times over very trivial matters.

I remember reading that the reason Iran is being such a pain is that they are trying to artificially inflate oil prices to boost a rather sluggish economy. I can not lay hand to this article right now to substantiate my remarks, but it conflicts with another article that I read that indicated that Iran actually has very little oil to sell and has to import much of their gasoline.

At any rate, we have two carrier groups in the Gulf right now and I think it would serve us well to actually shut Iran down for a couple of weeks. If nothing else, it would serve my own personal sense of justice.