Scandal

Why on earth has it taken this long to let our soldiers kill the people who are killing them?  Micromanaging their fight against a hostile force transforms the rules of engagement into a suicide pact.

The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran’s influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear program, according to government and counterterrorism officials with direct knowledge of the effort.

For more than a year, U.S. forces in Iraq have secretly detained dozens of suspected Iranian agents, holding them for three to four days at a time. The “catch and release” policy was designed to avoid escalating tensions with Iran and yet intimidate its emissaries. U.S. forces collected DNA samples from some of the Iranians without their knowledge, subjected others to retina scans, and fingerprinted and photographed all of them before letting them go.

Expect the ACLU to file for an injunction by next Wednesday. 

Notwithstanding the fact that Dafna Lizner wrote it, the entire story is a must-read.  Iranian intel agents are already at war against us, and their goal is to trigger the world’s next great mass slaughter — an all-out mass slaughter that will vividly clarify that the current violence is not a civil war, as terrible as it is.  The Iranians will never cooperate with us, because they believe that this mass slaughter serves their interests.  They with either fear us or hold us in predatory contempt.  It’s about damn time:  terminate with extreme prejudice.  ht