No Rest Even for Weary Presidents

No one expected Iran to give President Obama a break after a long, draining election.  While only Pentagonites know how often this happens, two Iranian fighter planes fired on an unarmed American drone.  This Washington Post article has the details.

Whether this is business as usual in the red-hot Persian Gulf (by the way, I can only imagine the U.S.'s reaction to an Iranian drone flying in international waters over the Gulf of Mexico or near Long Island Sound), or the opening of new tactics by Iran remains to be seen.  Another unanswerable question is whether these planes, which fired bullets and not missiles, missed their target on purpose, or whether they were terrible shots.  It is unlikely that this is the opening salvo in a new battlefront (the U.S. and Iran have been sniping at each other-mostly in the cyberworld-for years).  Suffice it to say, however, this is certainly not the morning wake-up call President Obama was hoping for.  That said, he's got four more years of phone calls starting: "Mr. President, the Iranians have...".