Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Unimportant My You-Know-What

Today, the U.S. military reported that it captured in Iraq an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) member suspected of (in the words of our military) "coordinating. . .for the transportation of multiple Iraqis to Iran for terrorist training at IRGC-QF training camps," In response, Bill Kristol wonders why such training camps are off-limits to our forces. Kristol says he raised with a senior Bush administration official the issue of going after these Iranian camps. While not denying that such camps exist or that we know where they are, the official discounted their importance. Kristol was not satisfied this explanation.

I find it hard to accept the concept of an unimportant terrorist training camp that's sending its graduates to Iraq. This is especially so when the camp is run by an outfit as formidable as the IRGC-QF and backed by the government of Iran.