The Lapdogs Of War   Iranian General Hossein Kan’ani Moghadam
announced Tuesday that his nation’s military has begun digging
mass graves for our troops should the United States decide to
level the Persian soccer pitch.  Speaking through the Fars “news
agency” (described by London’s Daily Mail as semi-official, and
clearly neither more nor less credible than MSNBC) Moghadam
said:   Analysts suggest General Moghadam is saber-rattling,
which is either silly (the 101st Airborne v. the Revolutionary
Guard is Mike Tyson v. Marvis Frazier stuff), stupid (he’ll die)
or both (his army will get beat like the French and he’ll still
die.)  Ever since 2005 Seymour Hersh has been screeching about
American plans to attack Iran.  While there is undoubtedly an
American battle plan for the Islamic dictatorship—as there are
similar contingency plans for attacks on every credible threat
on the planet—no such effort has come to pass.  And with Barack
Obama’s Presidency flailing like Keith Olbermann searching for
talent, no such e