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Churchill would have already made the ultimatum and J F Kennedy would have issued the current version of a force-wide ready alert and given Achmadeenajerk a specific number of days to return the Brits before things start breaking in good ole Persia. We'd have a nation being conditioned to ''...bear any burden, make any sacrifice...'' (from JFK's speech) and Congress would be compelled to consider nothing that didn't concern the crisis. Moreover, The State Dept. would be scurring about signing up an alliance to support our threat and ships would be heading for the region in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman.

But this prez has so royally screwed-up and de-moralized, abused and overused, depleted the force of equipment and depleted our strategic reserve of logistical re-supply and thrown so many billions of war fighting dollar down the international toilet--that all we can do is stand by with our impotence and exhaustion showing like a big red zit on the country's nose. Just tell Iran that after a couple of more presidental administrations and some reinvestement in men and materiel' and a regrowth of force morale among an active force that's active and reserves and Guard that ready to be used in their proper role---then Iran, we'll be ready to make a threat that's meaningful vis-a-vis the weak ass feign of now.