Who's Got the Matches?

What am I missing here? The United States has 160,000 military personnel and another 100,000 'contractors' occupying Iraq and the military is bitching about Iran, who lives next door, sending 50 or so soldiers into Iraq to work with the insurgents! From McClatchy:

"BAGHDAD - For the first time, the U.S. military said on Sunday that Iranian soldiers are in Iraq training insurgents to attack American forces.

Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, a top U.S. commander who is in charge of a large swath of Iraq south of Baghdad, believes there are about 50 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps in his battlefield area, military spokeswoman Maj. Alayne Conway said.

Conway said that U.S.-led forces have not caught any of the Iranians, but she said military intelligence and recently discovered caches of weapons with Iranian markings on them indicate that the Iranians are there."

I guess if we invaded and occupied Nicaragua, our current leaders would get all in a tizzy if Hugo Chavez sent some of his troops, too.

To reduce this to its lowest common denominator, here's my read on this. If my next door neighbor had a bunch of Rottweilers and Pit Bulls, you can count on me to do something to protect and secure my property.

I'm not saying the Iranian regime is a shining example of "lie and let live." Far from it. But why can't we understand basic human nature. If you set my neighbor's house on fire, I'll do my best to keep matches out of your hands.

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." -- Thomas Mann