Now we know their problem. They’re blinded by all the “snow”, obviously.

UPDATE:  Make that thirty-five pounds of cocaine, in hollowed-out text books, found in bags in the UN mail room.

Because the Medevacs wear red crosses and, therefore, under Army policy cannot carry defensive guns. So the medical birds have to wait for gunships to escort them and, sometimes, the gunships are busy.

Would seem simple enough. Remove the red crosses, which only aggravate the Muslim enemy (not to mention the Muslim allies), and mount defensive guns and gunners.

Too hard for the modern Army to grasp, apparently. (Similar to their refusal to stop driving Humvees on mined roads in Iraq.) Even though, as war correspondent Michael Yon notes, our medics are not adorned with red crosses (as they were in World War II) and they do carry rifles.

Obozo, of course, could have already solved the Medevac problem with a phone call. But it seems he’s too busy playing golf, or else following Mooch and the children around for ice cream and so forth on their latest taxpayer-paid vacation. What a commander-in-chief, right? Yeah.

“What can Iran do with a nuclear weapon?” he asked rhetorically. “For example, will they hit Israel? How many Palestinians will die? And you think if Iran hits Israel, their cities will be safe? They will be gone the next day.”

Makes sense, as far as it goes, especially coming from someone whose country is just fifty miles across the Persian Gulf from Iran. But do the Persian Mullahs have any sense? They haven’t made much so far.

As Spengler puts it, Egypt is becoming a banana republic without the bananas. One that, indeed, cannot even feed itself.

And it would be, as he adds here, “an obscenity” for us to continue to supply arms to these religious fanatics. We’ll see whether Obamalot—which stupidly pulled the rug out from under our old ally Mubarak—has the decency to sever our military aid to this budding Somalia on the Nile.

Unlike Spengler, I wouldn’t be opposed to some food aid for the hungry—even knowing that the new Muslim Brotherhood kleptocracy would take most of it—but, please, no more M-1 tanks, M- and F-16s, spare parts, and other arms, shells and ammunition.

For our own, as well as for Israel’s sake, stop it all now.

“Duqu appeared to be designed to gather data to make it easier to launch future cyber attacks, experts told Reuters. Stuxnet was aimed at crippling industrial control systems and may have destroyed some of the centrifuges Iran uses to enrich uranium.”

So, despite Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s assertion that Iran will get its nukes if Obamalot is re-elected, even that may not be enough for the Mad Mullahs to arm themselves (and their terrorist clients) with the world’s most fearsome weapon.

That’s the Green fantasy, which pols like because it allows them to tax and spend and hire more cronies for enforcement of their new government rules that supposedly will be our salvation. (Yeah, like sugar-filled, fat-free food.)

Spengler (David P. Goldman) has crunched the numbers and gathered the studies and found that, surprise, surprise, the truth is the opposite of the Green version: the real population bomb is going to implode and take more than a few countries (Germany, Japan, France, Greece, Turkey, Iran) with it into extinction, and all within the lifetimes of our children. (Those of us who have children.)

“Population decline is the elephant in the world’s living room…the social life of most developed countries will break down within two generations…The world faces a danger more terrible than the worst Green imaginings…For the first time in history, the birth rate of the whole developed world is well below replacement, and a significant part of it has passed the demographic point of no return.”

Congratulate yourselves, all you people who prefer dogs and cats to children. So far, the USA and Israel are likely to survive this one, much to the chagrin of their bitter enemies. Funny how truth is always more interesting than fantasy. You can pick up a copy of Goldman’s new book on this subject, How Civilizations Die: And Why Islam is Dying Too, here.

“It was misguided to turn American soldiers into potential hostages to Iranian terror. It’s a hundred times MORE misguided now to pull our forces out of Iraq: we need the capacity to deter Iran from swinging its weight in Iraq and turning it into a Persian satrapy. (The Baghdad government might not like this, but if we really want to, we have ways to persuade regimes like this to cooperate.)”

After all, if we can cooperate in Daffy Gadaffi’s execution… And if Obamalot must remain gutless on Iran, at least they can pull our forces out of Europe. They’ve been there, and very expensively, since 1945.

Meanwhile, in NYC, which is always reliably malcontent, their most famous black anti-Semite and demagogue is encouraging mob violence to get what he wants.

The sign carriers in Austin, so far as I can tell (the media only reports the outrageous in conservative street demos and these aren’t), are a mixed bag of gripers, spoiled students majoring in soft subjects that don’t require much study time, and our local collection of  pierced anarchists and Code Pinkos.

And our nitwit of a president, whose re-election campaign is largely fueled by Wall Street, is hypocritically egging them all on. If they had any sense, they’d be protesting at his front door. Sense, obviously, is not their strong suit.

“Specialist Chazray Clark was dying due to politics, and the Army and Air Force pilots are very angry about this.  Chazray’s is not the only such case…It is important to be absolutely clear–this is not about the Dustoff pilots and crews, who are incredibly courageous.

“They have earned enormous respect.  They’ll fly into hell to get one of our wounded troopers.  This is about politics getting in the way of saving lives…The General in charge of this fiasco needs to be fired.”

More from embedded correspondent Michael Yon.

Obamalot could remedy this with a phone call, and damn well better.