by Jack Random

The numbers are suspiciously round but so specific they imply a mountain of documentation yet the credibility of our government has fallen so low it would not be believed if we produced live video of the Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei ordering the assassination of American soldiers. If ever a circumstance cried out for an international tribunal, this is it. If such a tribunal were to examine the evidence and produce a finding that Iran in fact supplied arms to the Iraqi resistance, the Shia militias or both, would we consider it a cause for war or an assertion of Iran’s sovereign right to confront a hostile occupation on their border? Would it justify an expanded war or lead us to finally acknowledge the grave dangers we have unleashed by our unwarranted, aggressive actions?