WASHINGTON - The White House has reportedly given its approval for the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives in Iraq.
This is troubling on a host of different levels. I guess we've been doing a catch and release deal with Iranians in Iraq, and now we're doing kill or capture. This raises, for me, a number of different thoughts:
1. Are the Iranians actually in uniform, traveling in Iranian military vehicles, or otherwise identifiable as Iranian? If so, that seems to be a much more formal level of involvement than we've been led to believe. If not, however, I'm wondering how you could make the determination to kill someone. I would think there'd be a standing kill order for anyone showing hostility, but this would seem to suggest that might not be the case.
2. If anyone's interested, there's a story on rawstory.com from Tuesday that suggests that we've been leading up to getting Iran involved for the last 6 years or so. Raw Story is a liberal web site, so consider the source, of course, but it's an interesting read regardless. I had kinda been looking at it with a fairly jaundiced eye up until I saw this story this morning.
3. Boy, if Iran ends up fully engaged in this as well, all hell is going to break loose.
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