Biting the Hand That Fed Them

Sorry, but my snippet has absolutely nothing to do with the headline.

There is much speculation in Washington these days about whether Iran will respond to a preemptive strike by the United States and/or Israel in order to damage or destroy its nuclear weapons program. [it will] The deficiencies in the human intelligence collection and analysis capability of the United States resulting in the confusion about Iran’s war fighting ability is a major factor in this current speculation. [and just what do we pay these "experts"?] American experts are finding it hard to gauge Iran’s military strength and effectiveness. One way to measure Iran’s might with some degree of accuracy is to study how it has been fighting recently. Iran has not fought a conventional campaign since the end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988 [making them a major threat to the US], almost two decades ago. Since then, Iran’s military industrial complex and manpower evolved significantly [duh!]. Some of this new technology and training has been put into action by the Tehran regime in a limited extent at Iran’s periphery, which offers a window to peek at the Iranian military under actual combat conditions. Except for the two proxy campaigns in Lebanon [likely] and Iraq [pure speculation] which Iranian military and intelligence are engaged in, Iran’s only direct military action on its enemies has materialized in the form of a few surface-to-surface missile attacks on Mojahedin-e-Khalq camps in Iraq in the late 1990s and its ongoing conflict with the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK (Partiya Karkaren Kurdistan-Workers’ Party of Kurdistan) inside Iran and in Northern Iraq [again...speculation] at present, which this analysis is about.

Note: If I missed some of my editorial comments (highlighting them as it were), its harder than you think, feel free to take out your Sharpie and ...

Via IRAQSlogger.