“God help us!”

Oh, please. Stop.

This reeks of the “elite Republican Guard” garbage spewed by the mainstream media before both Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The Israelis haven’t unleashed the full power of their military since about 1973. Despite what you’ve heard about the 2006 Lebanon War, the reality is that Hezbollah’s missiles weren’t able to do anywhere near the damage that everyone expected. The vaunted Russian Kornet anti-tank missiles took out a grand total of two Merkava tanks. More were damaged–some heavily–but only two were destroyed. It took over 700 Kornets to destroy two Merkavas. Woo-hoo!

The Israelis learned from their mistakes and have retrained their forces. If they attack Iran, they will first neutralize the Hezbollah and Hamas threats on their borders.

The Israelis also have the ability to destroy Iranian ballistic missiles in the booster phase, which means their defense technology is much further along than is generally assumed.

Sure, oil will spike for a short time, but if the Israelis and the U.S. attack Iran, it’s going to be a knockout blow that will destroy the mullahs’ offensive military capabilities for good. This won’t be some symbolic pinprick that will allow the Iranians to retaliate. The global economy won’t crash, because the fighting will be over quickly.

Besides, everyone expects an attack, which probably means that something different is in the works. Tommy Franks pulled off a sneak attack right under the media’s noses. We were able to keep Saddam from blowing all the oil wells in southern Iraq, even though they were wired with explosives.

Have a little faith. Have things ever turned out as badly for the U.S. and Israel as the “experts” predicted?

I think you know the answer.