They said they were going to do it, and now they are doing it

Back in the spring the word came out from the Iranians they planned a summer campaign with the purpose of changing the Congressional vote to leave Iraq.

And it is working, it appears.

That this campaign is so out in the open and overt, and is killing Americans and Iraqis, shows a haughtiness and confidence brought by decades of experience in successfully dealing with the Americans, Democrats and Republicans. Other than the Iraqi based U.S. military reports about all the evidence mounting against the Iranians about this campaign, nothing much comes out in D.C. about this, with the exception of Senator Lieberman and the recent Senate bill voted 97-0 warning the Iranians. And the media provided little coverage to reflect the low value this vote had in D.C.

As long as Iran has safe havens in Iran and Syria, then they can do a kind of “slow bleed” strategy that keeps training safely going and sending in supplies and bombers to kill Americans slowly and surely, as well as fuel the sectarian violence that may tear apart much of Iraq. As long as they can demonstrate more patience than us in following a campaign plan and losing people, then time is on their side, or most importantly, they have to believe this is so. That they have alliances of convenience, as with Al-Qaeda, only makes our side’s job that much tougher. This is especially painful when counting the high percentage of suicide bombers that come out of Wahhabist sources in Saudi Arabia. It is also painful seeing Russian and Chinese diplomatic support for Iran used as a way to drag us down.

All these problems on our side demand solutions in D.C. by the Executive and the Congress. The solutions are above the level of the regional commander at Central Command. And the time has passed when covert action is alone all we do. Solutions and courses of action must be explained to the American people, who must be included in the information loop. Given the apparent bad luck our Nation has with the current mostly poor leaders in D.C., we may be left holding the proverbial bag until things worse than regional genocide come to pass, like the nuclear annihilation of Tel Aviv and a nuclear dirty bomb in the U.S.