Iran and Pakistan

I’m no great expert on Pakistan, so I don’t pretend to have any good answers to the situation there.  But it does seem odd to me that we’re apparently quite prepared to send troops, bombs and missiles into that country–nominally, at least, a friendly country–while we are not prepared to do anything of the sort with regard to Iran.

If anything, I would think that our military and political leaders would consider it more urgent to strike at Iran’s support for terrorists.  So far as I know, nobody is suggesting that the Pakistani Government per se is fully in support of the jihadis we are bombing and attacking there.  At most, Musharaff was condemned for being ineffective in controlling elements of his intelligence and military services who tolerated or supported al Qaeda.  In Iran, on the other hand, it is abundantly clear that the Supreme Leader and his minions are fully in support of a terror network that includes Hezbollah, al Qaeda, andn others who are operating in Iraq and Afghanistan against our troops.

I have long opposed military invasion of Iran, and still do.  But I do think it is legitimate self-defense, and urgent, to go after the terrorist training camps in Iran and in Syria.   And I also think we should be willing to go after the military-industrial facilities inside Iran where the latest generation of IEDs is being manufactured.

So my question is:  why are we attacking on the territory of a friendly country and not on the territory of a regime that has proclaimed its enmity to us and is actively engaged in killing Americans?  Seems odd to me.