Forget What We Said Earlier, We're ALL IN – HotAir
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As Ed’s riveting coverage of the start of Epic Fury noted, Iran lashed out when Tomahawks and, for the first time, unmanned American attack drones started tearing up the landscapes and looking for bearded guys in robes.

The problem with their general blind swinging was that it was uncontrolled – they were just swinging, and that bat went wildly across the Middle East.

Most of those countries had very diplomatically declared themselves to be non-combatants in any conflict between Iran and the United States, especially if Israel was a partner in any action.

Even countries like Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia itself, which have been in tit for tat skirmishes in Yemen, with icy diplomatic relations for months.

Iran has stepped on some serious toes, as Ed pointed out.

…Iran may also have made a very large error in their response. The regime had declared that it would only attack US and Israeli sites in the event of an attack, but their ballistic missile systems do not have precision targeting systems. Their opening barrage hit at least seven nations in the region, and that has the Saudis fuming. They had refused to allow their airspace to be used in any attack on Iran, part of their recent non-aggression agreement with the mullahs. This morning, the Saudis flipped and declared themselves ready to assist in confronting Iran:

The language was strong.

And called out the Iranians for striking ‘in spite of knowing’ the Saudis had told the Americans and Israel ‘no.’

…These attacks cannot be justified under any pretext or in any way whatsoever, and they came despite the Iranian authorities’ knowledge that the Kingdom had affirmed it would not allow its airspace or territory to be used to target Iran.

Well, the Saudi’s have to be really pissed off, the more time they had to think about it, because that ‘We support kinetic action against our pain-in-the-ass neighbor,’ has become…

WHAT DO YOU NEED US TO DO, CUZ WE’RE LIKE TOTALLY IN

The Saudis want a piece and some payback, not just for themselves, but for their neighbors who took hits in their capitals this morning, our time.

If you remember, a few days ago, I noted they’d moved the fleet out of Bahrain – it had just ghosted the port?

This morning is why. They hit the empty warehouse.

This is why no one was in the neighborhood.

I believe it would have only taken one missile to give the Saudis the excuse to say, ‘Welp, now you’ve done it’ and break their diplomatic stance. Iran played right into their hands with this.

I don’t think there’s a single neighboring country they haven’t smoked something in.

It doesn’t sound like they had many friends left…

…and the few that they did?

They burned those bridges this morning.

With the Saudis now taking an active part, the Iranian regime is toast.

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