Just what in life is certain?

Why does our American culture over-intellectualize even being attacked? And by a relatively small group of Iranian brigands, to boot. I wish it was more an astute case of savvy where bribes might be a cheaper way for America to achieve its goals and protect its people. But, alas, it seems more like too many people are too smart for their pants, to use an old time term. There is little new in this debate or discussion.

What prompts this post is an article yesterday by Robin Wright about the US government proposing giving the Iranian version of the Nazi SS, the IRGC, a special terrorist designation. This will allow “by law” the US government to do more to the bad guys than we could before, mostly financial stuff the UN will avoid doing. When implemented, if ever, Ralph Peters today suggests it also gives the US legal cover to bomb and do special operations against the IRGC, anywhere. I hope he’s correct.

Robin Wright worked for the LA Times before she hired on with the Washington Post, to add another perspective. She did an online Q&A which is pretty good in what it says and does not say, and here is the link for those so inclined: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/08/15/DI2007081500808.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Back to the subject with some “kinda” stories. There is a covert war going on with the IRGC and its proxies, if all the stories I know and have heard are correct. This is not proof, just belief and faith in what we are doing. But it is not good enough today after last springs’ public announcements by Iranians of a coming summer campaign to influence the Congressional vote to bail out of Iraq. And now the Iranian campaign is happening, mostly very violent suicide attacks, and it appears these IRGC types are now too big for their pants. Decades of unchallenged successes with little fighting back from the west have made them full of themselves. This especially applies to their export training and financed organization, the Qods force. This is a very dangerous situation we big dogs in the west have allowed to evolve with the little dogs in the middle east. Of course an Israeli would say the middle east is about Palestine, and a US type would think more Persian Gulf these days (an Arab calls it the Arabian Gulf). An over-intellectualize type will wring his hands, and note it is more an Arab-Persian problem, ignoring its impacts on America as long as they themselves can heat and cool and travel using gasoline. And then use the oft-used phrase “action passed is action completed” and let some future American leaders have to sort it out. That is a course of action, of course, but the outcomes may not be to future Americans’ benefit.

A recent Tom Clancy based movie had a line that answered the subject question. His daughter’s unrequited love was certain. In the same vein, its time that common sense American policy give more value to our future generations in what we do today.