Excellent outline of things as they are.
The complexity of deflating the Mullah hatemongers of Iran while not causing damage to oil production and infrastructure
belonging to the good citizens of Iran is touchy.
Consider also the power balance between Persian Shiia and Sunni.
The Sunni may be a minority in Iraq, but not at all a minority with the Sunni help leaking into Iraq from predominately Sunni, Saudi Arabia.
Muqtada al Sadr inspires an army of loyal and ruthless *Blackshirts* with Ahmadinejad Mullah support, yet ruthless Sunni death squads are able to inflict blood thirsty attacks on the *Blackshirts*.
The Bush team has to consider carefully the results of tipping that balance one way or the other.
Then there are the hoards of Taliban training and expanding in their Pakistan *safe zone*.
I wish Wineberger had not stopped Reagan*s order to swat Hezbullah for the 1983 killing of 241 Marines in Lebanon.
Pulling punches through Carter and Clinton terms has made the US a *paper tiger* and inspired Jihadists greatly. = TG
