The Iranian Invasion

....and how it's happening:

Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.

The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America''s tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S.

Hezbollah relies on "the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels," said Michael Braun, who just retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

"They work together," said Mr. Braun. "They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected.

"They''ll leverage those relationships to their benefit, to smuggle contraband and humans into the U.S.; in fact, they already are [smuggling]."

His comments were confirmed by six U.S. officials, including law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism specialists. They spoke on the condition that they not be named because of the sensitivity of the topic.

While Hezbollah appears to view the U.S. primarily as a source of cash - and there have been no confirmed Hezbollah attacks within the U.S. - the group''s growing ties with Mexican drug cartels are particularly worrisome at a time when a war against and among Mexican narco-traffickers has killed 7,000 people in the past year and is destabilizing Mexico along the U.S. border. [emphasis added]

Kinda puts the border control/illegal immigration "controversy" in a lot more sinus-clearing a context, huh?  As every real-life Jack Bauer knows, all the bad guys have to do is succeed once.  Look how the course of the past eight years has been impacted by the 9/11 strikes.  Now remember that Iran is amassing a nuclear weapons stockpile and Hezbollah would be one of their chief delivery vehicle options.  Indeed, if I were the mullahs, I would be sneaking nukes and/or radiological materials into the U.S. and getting them in place in major American cities right now for the showdown with us they've been building toward for thirty years.

With that, in turn, as a backdrop, try this blurb on for size:

A plan by President Barack Obama to send more federal agents to the Mexican border is inadequate to control growing drug violence in the two countries, an influential U.S. senator said on Wednesday, and he said he would seek $385 million more from Congress.

Senator Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, said he would try to quickly pass funding to hire 1,600 more Customs and Border Patrol agents and extra immigration officers, build up law enforcement centers and fight human trafficking.

On Tuesday the Obama administration outlined plans to redeploy more than five hundred federal agents to border posts and the Mexican interior and redirect $200 million to combat smuggling of illegal drugs, money and weapons.

"I don't think it's enough," Lieberman said at a hearing of his committee. "The danger here is clear and present. It threatens to get worse."

And the gist of the Obamunist retort?  Blame America first.

The hell of it is, thanks to the Little President's Ameriphobic pacifism and his predecessor's feckless failure to fight the War on Terror to a victorious finish, the ayahtollahs HAVE gotten the drop on us.  The question is not if they'll pull the trigger and bring us to our knees, but when.

And then Red Barry will have another "opportunity" to exploit.