Time for Thorns

Cartoonist Yogi Love  makes a great point  about Iran’s nuke ambitions.

Claudia Rosett  details the wanderings  of a Russian ship with a very shady past of helping sow discord and weapons in the world,  most recently docking in Iran.  Despite the heavy magical thinking being employed by the Obama Administration,  Russia is not our friend.

Someone appears to have  determined that the Stuxnet virus which damaged Iran’s centrifuges was built by people as clever as the armies of cyber hackers China and Russia and such employ to attack the cyber world.   Yes, hackers design their malware the same way, but they generally have a single target in mind.

The C.I.A. has screwed up  big time in Lebanon and Iran.   You can pink a large chunk of this failure on progressives   —   people like Sen. Chuck Schumer who decreed that we shouldn’t deal with bad people in order to spy on other bad people.   Please read the entire piece,  because you need to know that the same people in the C.I.A. who tried to destroy Pres. George Bush, and who did succeed in driving out Porter Goss,  the man he appointed to clean it up,  are still there,  still slick, and still running their own fiefdom.

Do you remember that Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld ramped up U.S. Army Intelligence the instant he was appointed?   Don’t you imagine such a smart,  savvy man had a damned good reason for doing so beyond the Clinton Administration having built firewalls among all the intelligence agencies to blind them?

The only thing which strikes me as odd is that the alleged spies haven’t already been publicly executed.   Perhaps Hezbollah thinks it can use the weakness of His Oneness to gain some advantage.   Meanwhile,  add spycraft to the list of things the federal government doesn’t do well.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards  are calling it  an accident,  but a Brigadier General would not be escorting a munition  transport.  A  missile expert  most certainly would not be attending to routine movement of ordinary ammunition.   I suspect sabotage,  and earnestly hope somebody was doing what needs to be done.

Tell me again what a foreign policy genius His Oneness is.  Of course,  if I were an Israeli official,  I wouldn’t promise to tell  Obama about my country’s military plans,  either.

I don’t know what to make of the alleged Iranian plot to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.   I certainly think that the Iranians would do so,  and that they view His Oneness as such a weak sister that they’d face no real repercussions.  Do what I did –  read Andrew McCarthy’s  thoughts on the subject.

As Steven Hayward   points out,   Iran hasn’t run out of parts for its airplanes despite three decades of embargo,   so why would His Oneness imagine Iran can’t get other useful military items?

Just in case anyone thinks we’re dealing with a modern society,  feast your eyes  on this story  about charges of sorcery in the struggle between the president and the supreme leader of Iran.

They are perfectly happy to use 21st Century weapons and communications in their ruthless quest for power,  but resort to charges from centuries past.

in Iran doesn’t  cause nearly as much uproar as it does here.