[DustyMoment]

neither the United States nor Israel are eager to be damned by the global community for sending in bombers to take out Tehran's dispersed and hard-to-find subterranean nuclear factories.

Frankly, I could give a crap less about the global community. They already hate Israel and the US, what would taking out Iran's nuke facilities do - make them hate us more??

If memory serves, respecting the global community's opinions during the USS Pueblo affair caused our sailors to remain in NK custody for nearly a year because Tricky Dicky wouldn't go in and obliterate a few NK cities as a way to explain to the Koreans that they had done a bad thing by hijacking our ship on the high seas.

So, as arguments go, fear of the global communitity's response doesn't sway me much. I know that isn't the bulk of VDH's argument, it's just the part that leaped out at me. Destroy the nukes, worry about the global community later.

[CBart95]

Perhaps even more infuriating is VDH's continued insistence that this whole business is some sort of myopic one-country-at-a-time affair when his own essays indentify Russia,China, our Middle East allies as well as our lazy assed Euro Trash "friends" all as active players and beneficiaries of the "unpopular war" we are conducting in Iraq and now contemplating rolling out to Iran.

Come on! All of the above and then some are seriously participating in a systematic and deadly process of war and war-like activity aimed directly at us.

Hatred for totally superior economic and military might is an established fact. VDH can rest assured that his occasional schadenfreude is far more widespread among all these players than he coyly admits to.

All of them and many more countries despise the US.

It's a fact of life.