Reply #1: In PNAC circles

[ewagner]

I believe they are asking the following questions:

Whatdo we do?
To Whom do we do it?,,,,and
With what?

The answers are not obvious. Start with "to whom" ? We have sooooo many choices.

Iran is causing us a lot of grief by sending in fundamentalists to stir things up in Iraq and they are really pissing us off with their nukes.

Syria is supporting Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad and they maybe, might have, could have received WMDs from Iraq before the war broke out.

Saudi Arabia is playing both sides of the political street by financially supporting terrorist groups and telling us that their "with us" as opposed to "against us".

The little fruitcake dictator of NK already has a couple of nukes and he has his chubby little psychotic finger on the trigger. China isn't too thrilled about a US invasion of NK because all those red-blooded American boys on their northern border makes them quite nervous.

Then of course, there's the oldie but goodie, Afghanistan. We could always go back in and kick some Taliban butt again but then we'd have to deal with Pakistan and if we did that India might want a piece of the action.

The what changes in each case, but the with what doesn't.

We simply don't have enough troops to tackle any or all of the above unless we want to re-instate the draft. And Rummy and the boys don't want to do that because they believe that a draftee army is worse than no army at all.... go figure.....

So I bet there's a lot of midnight oil burning in the catacombs of the pentagon as the PNACers learn the hard way life is a bitch