WARSHIPS IN THE PERSIAN GULF ARE EMPTY EXERCISES OF POWER
uExpress, May, 2008 by Georgie Anne Geyer
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has announced it is sending a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. As I'm writing, I see it on CNN, steaming ominously into that strategic body of water entered through the narrow Strait of Hormuz, to scare Iran out of its wits so that it will behave!
At the same time, the U.S. military is saying that it has found caches of newly made Iranian weapons in Iraq, leading Pentagon officials to believe that Tehran continues to funnel arms to the Shiite militias in Iraq. This marks a further hardening of U.S. rhetoric on Iran.
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Now, if I were the admittedly strange Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would I be scared? Or if I were an average Iranian person? Are you kidding? I'd dance around the table and have some caviar! What better event could an Iranian who already hates the United States -- ...
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