Monday, January 02, 2006
(12:52 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Threat of Iran
Yesterday on Fox News, there were continual teasers for a story about "the threat of Iran" and the possibility that we will have to attack there next. I can find no mention of this threat in the New York Times nor on the first five pages of a Google News search for "Iran." Is this a strategic thing? Are they trying to give advance warning to their "base" so that there will be apologists all ready to go by the time the story goes mainstream?I'm no military historian or expert in military tactics, but it seems like if they just decided to march from Iraq into Iran, they'd end up fighting a futile two-front war, with the Iraqi insurgents (or at least a subset of them) basically picking off US troops from behind. Maybe that's a September 10th mindset, though.
One night, after watching 24 or the Fox Sunday night cartoons, Jared Sinclair and I saw a Fox News teaser in which the graphic read, "Death Squads?" Apparently the administration was mulling over reusing some strategies from El Salvador. I felt like we had somehow stepped into an episode of The Simpsons or Family Guy without realizing it. "Death Squads?"
