Originally Posted by highsea

Indeed they do. And sometimes there is a price to be paid. If Iran chooses to play this game, she needs to be ready to face the consequences of that choice.

The US puts up with a lot of cr*p, but there is a limit. We didn't go after al-Qaeda until after 9/11. We didn't make the decision to take out Saddam until after 9/11. That was the breaking point. There were lots of provocations prior to that, but we held back.

Now Iran is flirting with some serious US reprisals by her interference in Iraq. We have known all along that Iran was meddling. But that interference has caused too many deaths, and now we have to put a stop to it- by whatever means necessary, including military action against Iran, if that's what it takes.

Originally Posted by highsea

Pakistan was faced with this same situation with the Soviets in Afghanistan- after the mujahadeen started attacking targets in the USSR, the Sovs went to Pakistan and said 'back-off or else'. Pakistan wisely pulled the plug on those operations.