Plane Crazy

This past weekend, Iran's armed forces shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that violated Iranian airspace along the country's eastern border. I know what you're thinking: "Oh great, now the Iranians have our model plane technology." Well, that depends on how much blew up on impact. President "Members Only" Ahmadinejad unveiled Iran's first domestically built unmanned bomber aircraft in August 2010, calling it an "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies. My suspicion is that the powers that be will probably want to detain the wreckage of the U.S. drone for as long as they can, holding the bits and pieces hostage until someone comes forward to pay their absurd demands for "bail."
All of this got me to thinking about just exactly what was at stake here. The U.S. had a spy plane shot down by a country that claims that they are not making nuclear weapons. Had the drone been blown up by a nuclear weapon, that would have been a pretty clear sign to our intelligence gatherers that they were on the right track. Since that didn't happen, we can only assume that there is something over there in Iran into which they would rather we weren't sticking our infidel noses. Fair enough, we're pretty tight with our secrets too. That's why I'm looking into just what the over-under is on our going to war with Iran. If there's going to be a shootin' war in the Middle East in the coming year, I want to get in on some of that defense contractor action. Papa needs a new unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.