Is he out of his freakin' mind?

8:54pm Sunday, Jun 10


Joe Lieberman announced this morning that he though an attack on Iran might be needed, in order to stop then from pursuing their nuclear ambitions and to keep them from killing Americans in Iraq.

What does he think we can attack Iran with?

We have exhausted our ground forces. At this point we can't take on Serbia, for Christ's sake -- and thanks to our boy president's panderfest in Albania yesterday, we may have to take on Serbia (he gets to feel the love in a precinct in Chicago and the Balkans gets another shot at war). But the President's screw ups are for another day and another note; back to "tail-gunner Joe".

What the hell is he thinking???

We don't have the ground forces. But wait, he wants air strikes no doubt. Thats the ticket! It worked so well with Shock and Awe. It worked so well in Lebanon. If there is any doubt, some Air power freak is there to whisper it in your ear. "You don't need to worry about casualties. We can bring the enemy to its knees with strategic air power."

Bullshit.

It didn't work for the Luftwaffe., it didn't work in Vietnam. It didn't even work in Kosovo without help from ground forces, otherwise known as the KLA.

It didn't work in Lebanon; in fact it was probably counter-productive in Lebanon where light infantry and commandos could have better accomplished the mission.

Air power is attractive to amateurs who don't want to explain why a lot of their troops are going to get killed. And let me just say this -- right out of Clausewicz -- if you aren't ready to tell your people why you are sending their kids, siblings, spouses, and parents into harm's way; you are not ready to take them into war. Air power won't make it any easier. You still need ground forces to do the mopping up, to secure sensitive sites, to control populations, to rebuild infrastructure. To do all the things that we gaffed off in Iraq and will undoubtedly gaff off in Iran if arm-chair generals like Lieberman get their way.