Iranian posturing sure sounds familiar:

Iran’s Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.

"We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year," said Iranian Hizbollah’s spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.

"They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America’s interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader’s green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we welcome it," he said.

Recall the words of Taliban leader Mullah Omar Muhammad:

VOA: If you fight America with all your might - can the Taliban do that? Won’t America beat you and won’t your people suffer even more?

Omar: I’m very confident that it won’t turn out this way. Please note this: there is nothing more we can do except depend on almighty God. If a person does, then he is assured that the Almighty will help him, have mercy on him and he will succeed.

And of course, don’t forget Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi Minister of Information, known affectionately as Baghdad Bob:

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

There seems to be a fundamental inability to appreciate the power of the US military. Two thousand suicide bombers? Even if every bomber took out a hundred civilians, the pain inflicted would be as a mote of dust to what a single B-52 could do. World War III. They have no concept of the devastation that will be visited upon them if the US were to unleash the full power of its forces.

But then maybe not. It may be that they know exactly what they face and what the result will be.

Are they in such a hurry to get into paradise?

Or maybe they are just in a hurry to die. It must be hard waiting for Allah to turn the tide. The gnawing doubts must be growing almost intolerable. Death would seem welcome.

But to take everything around you down in flames...

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