Operation: Screwup

American Scofflaw

Iran's security calculus has changed. It has almost reached the point of Tehran considering the option of reciprocating the perceived excess Western intrusion into its vicinity by allowing a military base for China at one of Iran's Persian Gulf ports or on one of its islands.

Without doubt, this would be a significant geopolitical move on both Iran's and China's part, bound to unsettle the US superpower that enjoys hegemony in the oil region. It also represents once again the laws of unintended consequence.

In other words, we remove a status quo goon (Saddam) to keep militant Shia and their allies in Iran, China and Russia in check so we don't have to, and now they're threatening to invite themselves right in. And, what can we do about it?--Nothing!