Iran has taken over the role Libya used to play. I remember when Arafat was in Tripoli, the Red Brigade and IRA were training in Libya etc.
Reagan got them a little more focused and then Saddam's fate gave Muamar as "Come to ... eh, The Prophet" moment.
There is a mind-set among the millenialist theocrats in Tehran that really disturbs me. Remember how they cleared mine-fields in the Iran-Iraq war? I really don't think I'd want "mine detector" as my MOS i the Iranian army.
>I'm not touching the strikes issue at all. I am only responding to your
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>>Major disruption in the region right now is by all means war in Iraq,
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>comment. Are you aware of all of the other disruptions in the middle east perpetrated by Iran? Iran's support of terrorists in Iraq is only the most recent. Are you aware that 90% of all suicide bombers in Iraq are non-Iraqis? Setting Iraq completely aside (for statistics purposes), Iran supports and trains and funds too many terrorist and guerilla groups to count...
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