Stephanie -- it's always been clear that resorting to military action against Iran's nuclear activities/sites would not be a costless exercise -- if anything that war game played things gently -- we could lose one or more carriers and various other ships -- they have very real keel-busting one-shot-kill anti-ship missiles -- Chinese Silkworms among them
this isn't a game for us any more than it is a game for them -- we, Obama and our military anyway, understand that -- it remains less than altogether clear that they do as well
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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