Jack of Harts

Midnight Hammer is just an awesome name for an operation. Especially one that ends up punching holes deep into the mountain atop a nuclear research facility. It started with some B-2 stealth bombers flying over towards Guam in what turned out to be a very effective strategic feint. Things get interesting after that, because everybody lies in war, and one never knows exactly what is true and wasn’t it.

What we understand is that seven B-2s flew directly from America, pausing along the way to refuel at need, arrived in Iran where they linked up with probably between fifty and one hundred F-22s and F-35s. They said around 125 aircraft were involved. I’m assuming a certain number of them were tankers and communications or radar craft. But over 100 aircraft is an impressive number. Many major national air forces cannot fly that many at once. We did it on the other side of the world.

The fighters escorted the bombers in, watching for aerial or surface defenses, as at least one nearby sub fired over two dozen surface to surface missiles into the area. The fighters opened fire to suppress any defenses, then the bombers dropped their deep penetration bunker busting bombs, and everybody flew away without ever being detected or fired upon if our knowledge is accurate.

And the really impressive thing? No word about it got out. Nothing at all. Operational Security held throughout the entire operation. It was a complete surprise to all the enemies of America. And it was a message I think, to all enemies of America. Much as Israel’s campaign against Iran has been a message to them. Don’t make us do this to you. We can. We just don’t want to. Don’t make us drop the Midnight Hammer on you.

I don’t know if we did the right thing this weekend. I dont have enough info to know. I didn’t want it, but we don’t always get what we want. I don’t know if it is good or bad or the least bad we could do to keep things from getting more bad. But I’m very afraid we’re going to find out.

Many strong-minded individuals in The West saw the fall of the Soviet Union as a way to build a New World Order where no one stood against our power. They promised Russia they wouldn’t expand NATO towards them, and then instantly began absorbing former Warsaw Pact nations into NATO. What could Russia do? Protest? They were bankrupt. And the many nations that weren’t Russian and didn’t like being in the Soviet Union really wanted in on that NATO thing. I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t want a hungry Russia looking at me after fifty years of Soviet rule. I would want friends backing me up, thank you very much.

But if you are the sole unipolar superpower in the world, what do you do when nations don’t want to do what you want them to do? You either shrug and let it go… or you don’t. And the Neocons that infected both parties did not want to let it go. They had power, and they were going to use it to get what they wanted. And any nation that disagreed just ate some bombs. Or some uranium-tipped bullets. Or some USAID-funded street protests. Or a totally-locally-led rebellion that toppled a government in hours. Or maybe they just had a tyrant that needed taking care of. Or maybe they sent a terrorist attack against us.

Yugoslavia. Libya. Syria. Georgia. The Country, not the State. Iraq. Ukraine. Afghanistan. These are the big names. The ones that made the news in America. Care to guess how many other nations we touched with USAID and other fingers of our foreign policy? Go ahead and look. You might be surprised by the names you see. And then ask yourself, how many of those names are better off now than they were in 1990? Or go back to 1980 and look. 1970. 1960.

The Neocons didn’t appear fully formed in 1990 and start their work with no history of their previous actions. Look at the world we have today and compare it to the world of the past, and ask yourself… do you like what absolute power has built?