Now that the Lieberman-Kyl amendment has passed designating a branch of a soveriegn nation's army as a terrorist organization we have to ask ourselves who the Revolutionary Guard is terrorizing and how they're doing it so that we can effectively stop them.
The Islamic Revolution's Guards Corps (IRGC) is the largest branch of Iran's military, and participated in Iraq's war against Iran. We are possibly breaking international law by selectively targeting an individual function of a sovereign government, but when have we ever heeded international law when we're scared half to death of our enemy?
Due to the size of Iran's armed forces, we're going to need a big ass deck of cards with the faces and names of IRGC members. Rather than using a traditional 52 card deck we should probably move up to an UNO deck. Generals would be Wild Draw Fours, officers would be Skips, Reverses and Draw Twos, etc. It is unknown how far soldiers will be grandfathered into the Specially Designated Global Terrorists list, but if the grandfathering goes as far back as the Iran-Iraq war, then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will also be a target as he served in the Army during that war. I propose, though, that we wait to start pasting faces on those cards until we can determine who the biggest perpetrators of IRGC terrorism are. What targets have they taken out? Who have they bombed? What are their demands? The list of questions goes on and on.
Are we going to tell the IRGC to "bring it on"? Are we going to get 'em "dead or alive"? Are we going to chase them into a complex system of caves and then ignore them while we go into Syria? Can we (ooh please) proclaim that our mission is accomplished after we kill only a few of the evildoing terrorists? And um, really, what did the members of the Guards do that qualifies as terrorism? I wasn't really filled with terror (or even the least bit scared of them) until the Senate told me I should be widdling my pants whenever I think of them. (Oh, but believe you me, I'm terrorized good and proper now.)
You know, now that I really start thinkin' about it, isn't it really Leiberman and Kyl who are making me scared? Doesn't Iran just really care about stability along its borders? Isn't our government really the party engaging in skullduggery rather than the Iranian army? Can't we persuade our damn Democratic senators to cut this jingoistic bullshit and focus on either a) getting our people home, b) fixing our economy (by soaking the rich, of course), c) health insurance for poor kids, or d) all of the above?
Apparently, no, we can't get them to focus on anything except being the most cautious, mealy-mouthed bunch of politicians who've ever served this nation of ours. Fuckers.