Iran and America's Drones

If it hadn’t before, the Islamic Republic of Iran now completely understands what makes America’s drones tick, both the hapless drone sitting in the White House and our surveillance drone sitting somewhere in Iranian territory.

At this juncture, Iran probably understands President Barack Hussein Obama better than it understands our top secret spy plane although, given enough time, they, China, and other American enemies will learn plenty about the Lockheed RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth Drone.

On Tuesday, Democrat congressman Dennis Cardoza (CA) criticized the president as arrogant and alienating, as a man who would be better off teaching somewhere than serving as chief executive, a charge that is only partially true. He is, indeed, arrogant and alienating but only on the partisan, domestic front. Internationally, he functions much like the RQ-170 is functioning now.

As for Obama being better off doing something, anything else, that’s true. The country would also be better off.

A week ago, the Sentinel inexplicably went down somewhere in Iran while on a surveillance mission over Iran.

Chockful of stealth technology, capable of flying at 50,000 feet, and costing $6 million dollars each, the remotely-operated drone apparently malfunctioned and was not shot down by the Iranian airforce as Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alleges but at this point little of that matters.

Obama wants it returned. It’s not known whether he stamped his foot when he said so. Various options for recovering or destroying the aircraft were presented to him. He chose to grovel and beg, instead. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=10741.)