And we'll bomb what?

I don’t want to step all over my ghost stories, or the pathetic and vicious tale of murder I just chronicled, but there is something buried in recent news reports that bears comment.

Democritters are very upset, and threatening to de-fund a bill providing money to retrofit the B-2 Stealth bomber to deliver a 30,000 pound bunker-buster bomb. This monster is the MOAB [Mother Of All Bombs, thank you Saddam] short of nuclear ordnance.

Here’s an interesting factoid: this bomb is already capable of being delivered by the B-1 Lancer or the workhorse B-52. However, these airplanes are not stealthy. The B-1 flies low and fast, and has a small radar signature. The B-52 has a radar signature the size of a small European country. The B-2 shows up on radar as a bumblebee collecting honey.

Something happened in Syria recently involving a nuclear facility. The incident is still shrouded in smoke and mirrors, so we’ll await official word on what might have happened.

In Iran, Ah’m-a-madman continues apace to develop The Islamic Bomb. He will not be deterred, he doesn’t care a whit about the effects of sanctions on his country; he will have this thing, and he will use it. If he doesn’t send the Iranian air force on a suicide run to Israel, he’ll lend it to his Al Qaeda neighbors so they can bring it across our open borders into Cleveland, or detonate it in Tel Aviv.

Some years ago, the ever-treacherous French sold Saddam Hussein a nuclear reactor. Never ones to be wallflowers, the Israelis flew in and bombed the thing to ashes before the concrete was dry.

In the poisonous world of partisan politics in Washington, some Democritters now have their panties in a wad because they are convinced we’re going to drop this 30,000 pound MOAB on the Iranian nuclear facility, as soon as it can be strapped to a B-2 for a sneak play.

Everyone’s in a dither about Iraq, and even reasonable pundits are saying we can’t take on Iran until we regroup, if it’s going to come to boots on the ground. Okay, point taken. I’m all for putting a standard 5,000 pound smart bomb through Ah’m-a-madman’s bedroom window, but we’re supposed to be the Good Guys, so we don’t make a habit of that behavior.

If 30,000 pounds of deep-penetrating, high-explosive ordnance mysteriously fell out of the sky and eliminated a nuclear facility in Iran, who’s going to be upset? I imagine the local farmers might be upset when their chickens quit laying. There are some mullahs in Teheran who will be screaming “Death to the Infidels!” (What else is new there?)

They say this new retrofit won’t be ready for a couple of years. That’s keeping pace with the official timeline for Iran developing The Islamic Bomb. In the meantime, there are all these bogus sanctions and useless “diplomacy” in play.

Every time I see Harry Reid and his ilk on TV, I want to puke. I have too much pessimism about the future of America. Retrofitting the B-2, and having the will to use it, isn’t at the top of the headlines. However, if the yellow-dog Democrats de-fund this and do nothing to protect our country, they are as guilty as Ah’m-a-madman when the bomb crosses our open borders and goes off on American soil.