This Isn't Really News, Is It

The London Times is reporting that the White House is developing plans on how to bomb Iran. No, duh. That's their job, isn't it?

Bombing Iran will certainly provoke a response. If I were Iran, I'd send hundreds of Hezbollah suicide bombers to America to wreck havoc in response. Of course, if they did that, we would opening declare war on both Iran and Hezbollah, remove the mullah regime and try to eliminate the Lebanese organization. That would be nasty, but at least our enemies would be out in the open.

Am I the only one a litle confused about why Iran is supplying the insurgency in Iraq weapons? The insurgency is lead by a variety of Sunni groups who want to oppress the Shiite majority. The Iranians are Shiite. Are they supplying weapons to the Sunni to keep their fellow Shiite oppressed? Or are they estimating that the more chaos in Iraq, the less likely the US will be able to influence the region, and they intend to fill the vaccum? It's a little confusing to me. Or, are the Iranians supporting the Shiite militia death squads going around killing the Sunnis? It's all rather confusing. I'm not sure anyone in the Middle East really knows what they want...other than power.

On another note, Al Queda is a growing presense in Palestine. One reason is to begin attacking Israel in the next few years, as outlined in the Al Queda ten year plan. The second reason is that IF Hamas moderates (ie recognizes Israel), Al Queda plans to recruit disgruntled jihadis from Hamas to their organization.