Abu Wabu

The many faces of Glenn Greenwald are tearing up over the news that U.S. troops have raided a house in northern Iraq containing Iranians, who retroactively declared the residence an Iranian consulate. I guess that's so as to make the raid an attack on soveregn Iranian territory- which of course is an act of war. In fact, it's quite reminiscent of a similar act of war that occurred in 1979; the mullahs may remember it. But as Greg Tinti points out, Greenwald ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to this sort of thing:

The dumbest reaction I’ve seen to this on the left is from Glenn Greenwald, whom without apparently understanding the irony of his question, asks, “Isn’t it a definitive act of war for one country to storm the consulate of another, threaten to kill them if they do not surrender, and then detain six consulate officers?”

Why yes, Glenn, it is. All that and more.

Now, the only proper response to all those Niggling Little Acts of War by the Iranians, the Syrians and their proxies against American troops in Iraq is to attack these players. Make them understand that they are at war with us. Big War. What the idiots like to refer to as "blowback", only this time, the blowback is aimed at outside agents operating in Iraq, all of which must be destroyed. Note that I did not say "must be rendered ineffective", or "must be engaged", or "must be taken out for ice cream"; I said, "must be destroyed". That means killed. That's war.

Meanwhile, back in Rancho Mullah, three massive explosions in Khorramshahr in the border province of Khuzestan, "the heartland of Iran's oil industry", which has been simmering with unrest among the province's mostly Arab population. Oh yeah, and what Iranian authorities are calling a "UFO crash". Not verified, of course, but our stringers are from the Palestinian territory (what's left of it, anyway) and so are unimpeachably reliable.