The Indirect Approach

Prominent cats have recently advocated the Great Satan using the military option on the table to bring Iran back to the table. Clear, timely communications like bunker busting swift spinning centrifuges or vaporizing IRRG HQ's.

"The Iranian people are smart enought to recognize the difference between an
invasion and an attack on their unpopular regime." Ex UN Ambassa John Bolton.

"The day after'" would be scary and dangerous. Anything less than a total regime killing, regime decapitating regime change and the Islamic Republic would unleash pure heck - from a surge of their own into Iraq to unleashing Hiz'B'Allah to act out anywhere in the world, and really bring jihad to the Great Satan.

All true. Finger crossing aside, inaction unhappily calls into play how an Islamic Republic with deployable nukes would unleash pure heck.

Could the military option actually convince Iran to halt enrichment? An indirect approach?

"In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there; a direct
approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by
compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by
upsetting his balance."

This is significant. Attacking the B'Kah Valley in Lebanon is totally legit - Security Council Resolutions negotiated, democratically achieved by veto powered members make a case for intervention and the indirect approach.

UNSCR 1559 calls Syria to split from and end its interference in Lebanon.
UNSCR 1701 calls for the disarmament of Hizballah

The Be Kah Valley is the hood for Hiz'B'Allah. The original sharia law loving super villian caliphate. The Great Satan claims just vengence as the 1st Battalon 8th Marines redeems a blood debt.

"Bekaa is Hezbollah's lifeline to the outside world (especially at a time of war). Moreover, any form of Syrian or Iranian assistance comes to Hezbollah
through this area. Hezbollah's training facilities are spread across the Bekaa -- facilities that are vital, especially to a nonstate actor like Hezbollah, dependent upon support from Damascus and Tehran."

Geographically the B'Kah Valley looks like a magical panzer magnet to downtown Damascus and beyond. The Little Satan has extensive experience against Hiz'B'Allah in the July August War of 2006 . The Little Satan's Air Force recently dissed Syria's conventional wisdom to the Nth.

Attacking the B'Kah Valley is absolutely is essential to stymie Syrian designs in Lebanon. Confidential sources indicate the BKV:

"...is far more important for Syria, not just because of the country's historic
role as the patron of Hezbollah, but also because of its ambitions for Lebanon".

Such a pre emptive, preventive wicki smack by the Great Satan would most likely be interpeted in Damascus that

Supporting Hizbollah carries a prohibitive price Syria could respond with
missile attacks against Israeli cities, but given the dilapidated state of
Syria's army, the chances are greater that Assad will simply internalize the
message.

It would also have the happy effect of drawing a client of Russian Air Defenseless Systems out of Iran's orbit and marginalizing Syrian influence in Lebanon and Iraq. Completing the Great Satan's Encirclement of Iran, whose fiery rhetoric is begining to sound old, played, flat out freaked out and desperate.

"Syrian ground forces deployed near the Lebanese border would be fair targets.
By eliminating 500 Syrian tanks--tanks that Syrian President Bashar Al Assad
needs to preserve his regime and presented with a choice between saving
Hezbollah and staying alive, Syria's dictator will choose the latter."

Removing a valued weapon like HBA out of Iran's armory will further unhinge the Mullah's who are increasingly isolated and may soon have their backs to the wall. The IR's economy would not be able to rebuild both the B'Kah and Hiz'B'Allah.

"Any course of military action carries risks, especially in the unpredictable ME.
The Six Day War presents a paradigm of an unwanted war that might never have
happend if a well placed strike at Syria had been undertaken."

Attacking the B'Kah Valley may be just the thing. The indirect approach.

Bashar's Bridge to Burn

The line between the Great Satan's asymmetrical hudna and asymmetrical jihad is becoming nigh nonexistant.

The Internat'l Palestinian Sympathy Fatigue Awareness Week at Annapolis seems like another futile jaw flapping event. Legitimate reps from a legitimate, democratically elected government of a sovereign nation parley with chaotic, illegitimate bi polar terrorist loving, civil war infected fiefdoms whose 'diplomats' are determined more by loyalty to a leader than to their own people.

Front row seats include the EU - whose recent realignment with both the Great Satan and the Little Satan make a powerful statement. The Arab Leauge may attend.

Syria 's presence is significant.

A Palestinian State is not the real point here. Driving a wedge between Bashar Al Assad's Syria and the Mullah's in Iran is.

The Great Satan is making an honest effort to engage Syria. Honest because the Little Satan has something that Syria wants. And Syria has something to trade.

"It is clear that Assad will not be sending a representative to Annapolis to
grant legitimacy to a bilateral Israeli-Palestinian process that is meant to end
up with an agreement between the Zionist entity and the Fatah-led PA. Keep in mind that Damascus houses and fully supports Hamas, which is ideologically opposed to any such process. Rather, Assad has a price for his attendance and for moving away from Iran."

Regaining the Golan heights has driven Syrian policy since the IDF took it fair and square in a real war. It has been one of the ideals behind Bashar's regime since he assumed power. An intregal part of Kuryat Suriyah will take some repositioning before reclaiming.

Disowning Hiz'B'Allah, refraining from blatant and covert interference in Lebanon and officially recognizing Israel seems like a high price to pay for the Golan. Easing sanctions and restrictions on Syria by the Great Satan are powerfully desired bits of legitimacy for Al Assad.

Iran sees a real chance that Syria may bail on her Axis of Evil commitments, after all the mullahs haven't been invited. Since Iranian defense of Syria is nonexistent, Bashar realizes just how weak his regime is.

One by one, the Great Satan is forcing the unelected leaders of the ME to get with it or get dissed, smacked or replaced. Countering every Arab League raison de doofuss for the ME's failures is brilliant - especially if Annapolis itself fails.

Will Annapolis actually work? Who cares? This 'hudna' is an effective smokescreen for the near future.

When the Great Satan's hudna finally gives way to the Great Satan's jihad - America unbound can remind targeted regimes and their precious assets - Annapolis was their bridge to avoid all this 'instability'. And they blew it.

Attack of Sexy Fiction

"I don't know what the book is about. But when the government bans a book, there is something interesting in it." Ahmad Abbasi says, forking out twice the book's price at an undisclosed location.

Life under an illegitimate regime like Iran's mullahs does have one benefit. You know when the government bans a book - it's got to be good. Especially one that made it through a first edition before the "Culture Ministry" caught the error.

"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" a Persian translation of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel at first seems about as dangerous as listening to your 'rents Steely Dan box set.

Older guys trying to hook up with young hotties is the theme. Happens every Ladies Night in the Free World. Nothing major or government threatening - or is it?

In the Mohammedist preachers paradise of the Islamic Republic of Iran it is like Kryptonite in Smallville.

Thankfully, loyal minions like Culture Minister Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi has the sitch well in hand.

"Necessary measures have been taken to avoid reoccurrence of such a
printing"

Such measures include sacking the censors for "negligence". Alas, the traditional despotic remedy may be too little too late. Over 5K copies have been printed and are selling out fast.

The novel of bummed out hoes deals with an old man who has been a customer of prostitutes his entire life. For his 90th Bday he wants to hook up with a teenage virgin.

Just like a Steely Dan song - he falls hopelessly in love with her.

"The first edition has sold out but we were ordered not to publish the second
edition," an employee with Niloofar Publications said Saturday, declining to
give his name due to the sensitivity of the issue.

No doubt. But how the heck did such an unIslamic book make it through the censorship jihad anyhow?

The Culture Ministry, whose censors are responsible to check the contents of
books before print, said a "bureaucratic error" led to the government giving
permission for the novel to be published.

Thankfully, Iran's faithful reported the oversight and the ban is now in place.

It was only banned after the Ministry of Culture received complaints from
conservatives who believed the novel was promoting prostitution.

Far from driving the massess away from such blatant desire for Laffy Taffy literature, the ban may have actually backfired.

The ban has only provoked greater interest in the novel and on Saturday, copies
of the book were being sold for more than twice their list price.

28yo Ahmad Abbasi says "I'm buying the book out of curiosity."

Curiosity. Legitimacy. Two more words the Mullah's have to contend with.

Fast Times at Tehran High

1/2 way through a scene from an ancient movie called "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" a wickedly clever prophesy is fullfilled. The resident Ridgemont retardy's late to class. During the teach's interrogation it's revealed that the class is American history because -

"... I see the globe right there..."

The Great Satan's whirlwind of diplomatic statecraft is formidable, global and flat out stunning. Applying charm, grace and old school techniques America has pre emptedly co opted the EU's soft power in a way that Francis Fukyama never saw coming.

The New Millenium's Lafayette pays homage and hooks up with the Great Satan, Uber Rich Deutschland's plan to bankrupt the Iranian economy is set in motion. Before the dust had settled at the Texas ranch par tay, communications from Great Britain signal the spiritual sons of Arnhem and El Alamein are in it to win it:

"And it is good for Britain, for Europe and for the wider world that today
France and Germany and the European Union are building stronger relationships
with America."

This alignment of the EU is significant. The EU's legitimacy as a collection of democratic, tolerant, egalitarian societies with a free, uncensored press and open, transparent elections is irresistible. Poland responds by dissing Russia and digging in her heels in Iraq. The EU has cash. Great Britain and France wield UN vetos.

Russia's been dissed once with Iraq - ending up burned for supporting a dictator whose regime was changed in 20 days. A remixed version with the Islamic Republic may be the same - a newly liberated country whose folks will not be too concerned about upholding deals negotiated with foreign supporters of their former despots.

All this is freaking the Mullahs out. The Islamic Republic's decepticon lotto is in question.

The Great Satan's counterparts in the Islamic Republic's Diplomatic corps are frantic with a surging haj of their own.

At an especial meeting in Tehran, China's brand new Foreign Minister issues statements with sincere blocs of insincerity:

"China stands for the maintenance of the international non-proliferation system
and supports a peaceful solution to Iran's nuclear issue through diplomatic
negotiations."

China may be the only veto Iran can count on when the Great Satan presents data from Allies and the IAEA to the UN Security Council. That's a big IF.

The Great Satan's multi lateral diplomatic jihad is in high gear.

And it is wickedly brilliant, to put before the public new findings on Iran’s nuclear secrets, drawn from data gathered by the IAEA, Russia, France, Germany and Israel, and use the PR

as another vice fulcrum to push hard for unsustainable international sanctions.

The UN will have to act out or back out. Iran is running out of friends.

The Great Satan sees the globe right there.

Deutschmarks and Grits Uber Alles

Hot on the heels of a hot make up hook up with France's darling Nikki, the Great Satan shindigs an old school Texas lo down ho down. Designed to dazzle, Deutschland's Bundeskanzler Angela Merkel is a guest of honor and gets the especial pick up truck ride.

"In Texas when you invite somebody into your home it's an expression of warmth
and respect and that's how I feel about Chancellor Merkel."

Seducing Iran's last financially legit biz partners is highly significant. Germany's got game.

"Germany is Iran 's biggest trading partner, with a 2006 surplus of €4bn"

Chatting up Germany's long time biz partner about uranium enrichment chicanery, under UN auspices - no less - has been a 3 year trek to heartache and frustration despite the super sweet best friends forever deal :

"the incentives were the most far-reaching offered to Iran since Britain ,
France and Germany started negotiations with the Islamic Republic over three and
a half years ago. Iran would be offered nuclear technology, including a light
nuclear reactor, Washington would lift economic sanctions and Iran would receive
crucial spare parts for its aircraft."

The Great Satan's asymmetrical hudna becomes asymmetrical jihad, implemented over a delightful southern treat.

green chili-cheese grits souffle, and pecan pie.

"Strategically, we see eye-to-eye. Tactically, there are some slight
differences," Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House National Security
Council, said.

The Great Satan shared tactically slight diffs with the last of Iran's Euro biz buds.

"It emerged last night that Siemens, one of the world's largest engineering
groups and based in Germany, has pulled out of all new business dealings with
Iran after pressure from the US and German governments. This follows the
decision by Germany's three biggest banks, Deutsche, Commerzbank, and Dresdner, to quit Iran after a warning from US vice-president Dick Cheney that if firms
remain in Tehran, they are going to have problems doing business in the US."

Years of investment and infrastructure disappearing with the Great Satan's up coming regime killing release of 'Beyond Blitzkrieg: Expansion pack' seems a shameful waste of Teutonic capital and feats of engineering.

Besides, the cash Germany makes wheeling and dealing with moneyed mullahs is small change compared to what's financially at stake in Deutschland's capital creation in the Great Satan.

700K jobs in Deutschland along with 46 % of US direct investment abroad was
in the EU.

EU countries accounted for more than 60 % of foreign direct investment
in the US.

Underscoring that the Great Satan wields considerable influence in the pocket books of the EU's pocket states. Since the Great Satan is paying the band, she calls the tunes.

The encircled Islamic Republic is running out of dance partners:

Staging a bizarre diss at the UN's Tehran office that only serves to remind the internat'l community that the largest killers of mohammedists have been, well, other mohammedists. A wonderful example of an eccentric bite the hand that shields mentality.

Iran's failing domestic sitch is requiring traditional despotic management tools.

Iran's brand new diplomatic damage control team has their hands full with potential Arab client states in the Gulf that are flat out dissed, spooked, and present considerable threats to the mullah's south 40. Royalty in Ray Bans deploy smoke and glittering prizes.

The EU's formerly vaunted 'soft power' (which seems a lot like Russian Air Defenseless Systems) provides no security.

"A European diplomat, however, said, Iran had not been offered any security
guarantees. and that "the E.U. is certainly not in a position to do offer this
because the E.U. is not a defense organization. The E.U. is not in position to
provide any security umbrella."

The Little Satan bears her fangs, reminding her enemies that The
Great Satan is not the only player that can strike decisively, effectively,
at will and without modesty.

Also significant is that the Great Satan and Deutschland are issuing no new statements during the Deutschmarks und Grits game of Texas Hold 'em. Previous statements say it all.

"The Iranians must understand that we won't fold," Bush said. "Our
partnership is strong and for the sake of world peace, they should abandon
their nuclear ambitions."

Adds Merkel "Under no circumstances must Iran be allowed to come into
possession of nuclear weapons."

The Great Satan plays the last card close to her breast. When does the asymmetrical jihad begin?

"That's the kind of question that allies discuss in private."

A Grateful Nation Offers Thanks

The 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Imperial Germany gave up the ghost. America's 1st regime change in the new century. Armistice Day for the War to End all Wars, entirely achieved by the addition of the Great Satan's spiritual fore fathers to an entente of desperate states.

Conscripting an army of free men, America deployed 2 million troops to save Europe from a Prussian military machine that was the world's best - until they hooked up with the Great Satan in combat. Places like Chateau-Thierry and Bellau Wood decisively crushed Teutonicism. Deutschland screamed "GOD! PLEASE! STOP!"

An extensive remixed v2.0 released 27 years later as Veteran's Day.

Americans should go down on their knees and thank God Almighty for raising up this laughing race of freemen.

Americans energetically pursue commerce, science, medicine, technology and the arts. When these designs are halted by conflict, they energetically pursue absolute, decisive, and ruthless destruction of their enemies. After visiting violence and securing victory they energetically return to the pursuit of commerce, science, medicine, technology and the arts.

An excellent example of the concept of service to something larger than self became a personal epiphany 2 years ago, at an especial place and a chance meeting with an ancient Iwo Jima survivor.

17 yo, still on the farm when the horrible news came that the neighbor boy had just been killed in Italy. Staring sacrifice in the face, this living embodiment of American Exceptionalism had to take his homie's "... place in the line..." Ma and Pa agreed and the preacher drove him to Nashville to enlist. Less than a year later, this Marine fought in place in the line at the hallowed bloodsoaked Iwo Jima.

His name is legion, for there are thousands like him. From Bunker Hill to Chickamauga, from Midway to Fallujah.

America's veterans put their lives on hold, deploy overseas, incinerate our enemies, return home and continue to build this awesome place.

America and the world can never thank ya'll enough.

"Always Faithful"

Celebrating a 232 year old birthday, the United States Marine Corps is an American treasure. "Semper Fidelis" (Always Faithful)) is especially sweet since her 1st foreign debut centuries ago. In a remakable twist of deja vu, a very young America was faced with a desperate choice - pay ransom cash to an 8th century caliphate or undertake to launch a war thousands of miles away on the shores of North Africa.

Diplomacy was the first choice and the Great Satan's Thomas Jefferson himself met with a duly commissioned rep of the 'Barbary Coast'. His report to Congress is totally familiar to Americans in the New Millenium:

"The ambassador answered us that the right was founded on the Laws of the
Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not
have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to
make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they
could take as prisoners, and that every Mohammedist who should be slain in
battle was sure to go to paradise."

Jefferson used the Marine Corps to grant them their very wish. A task force led by the USS Enterprise stormed into the 8th century and defeated the Mohammedists in The Great Satan's very first regime change.

The Great Satan's enemies have learned the hard way that the Marine Corps is very often the piercing tip of the American spear. Like Kaiser Wilhelm's vaunted Prussian elites who admiringly christened the Americans at Bellau Wood - das Teuffel Hunden - 'Devil Dogs'. Sweet irony that Deutschland surrendered on the day after the Marines 143rd birthday

10 November 1775 to 10 November 2007. Always Faithful indeed. Happy Birthday USMC.

The Marine Anchor and Globe is a wonderful reminder to America's friends and enemies that the Great Satan built the modern world. And we know our way around.