Posted by
Steve on Monday, December 12, 2011 11:29:09 AM
Last week the US lost a new era drone over Iran. When the drone went down, the US had four options on what to do. The decision was up to our Fearless Leader, so that should give you some clue which one might be taken.
Option 1 – Send in the Special Operations Forces and retrieve the drone. This option would be risky because you have to send in enough men and material to retrieve the drone. From the pictures on Iranian TV, the drone is fairly large. That would mean a fairly large retrieval unit would be required. That would make secrecy difficult for this operation.
Option 2 – Send in the Special Operations Forces and blow up the drone. This option would be risky only in that you are sending in people to do the job. The Special Operations Forces could conceivably get in and out safely while destroying the target. This operation could conceivably be secret up and until the drone was destroyed.
Option 3 – Send in a cruise missile and blow up the drone and everything else within a short distance. This option involves no risk to people. It does involve risk that Iran may decide that destroying our drone to be an act of war. There would be no way to conceal this option once the missile was fired.
Option 4 – Do nothing and hope the Iranians do not find the drone. If they do find the drone, they do not have the technical knowhow to reverse engineer the drone and tap its computer systems.
Our Fearless Leader chose option 4. He was afraid of causing the Iranians some concern or possibly harm if they had been in the vicinity of the drone when any of the first three options were taken.
Now we are left hoping that they will be unable to tap into the drone and get all the detailed information. Hackers being what they are, the possibility of Iran hacking into the computers is rather high. They have all the time in the world to tap into the computers and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
I am surprised that the drones do not have a self-destruct system built into them for a scenario like this. They should be able to blow themselves up if they fail for any reason. That would eliminate the first three options and only give two. Blow the drone up by pushing a button or letting the country it lands in find it. That would be a no-brainer even for our Fearless Leader currently in the White House. He can always be counted on to pick the absolutely worst option for America. He showed that ability again with this decision on the drone. Now our most secret drone technology is on display for the entire world to see. We should have destroyed the drone, at a minimum, before anyone found it. Now that option is off the table. Our national security has been severely damaged and our Fearless Leader does not seem to care. He only wants to get re-elected so he can continue the destruction of everything American.