The Iranians have already won this round.  By not attacking immediately but promising a major attack (and we know it will be civilian), a good part of the population has become immobilized.  The knowledge that our neighborhood may disappear at any given moment can accompany us for days, weeks, and then it will become incorporated into our general panic about this war, and we’ll forget.  

And then it will come.

So we can’t forget the imminent danger, can’t wander around, can’t be comfortable anywhere in the world, can’t sleep naked, can’t, in my case, do a little blog like this without the tightest security possible. 

I keep thinking of books like ‘the red badge of courage,’ ‘the naked and the dead’ and how the worst parts were the waiting.  The ability to control the other’s waiting is the key to success.  So if I were a commander in a war game I’d use waiting as a major tool – like the Hamas are doing with our captives and like Iran is doing with their civilian attack on us.