Is Everything In Position?

Needless to say, I was disturbed about the recent decision to "go public" about the Iranian Terror Plot.
I say this because I believe that these plots are going on all the time and are addressed without fanfare and in some cases appropriate secrecy.   So why is it important now to put this in the news?  Why go public about the incident?

Perhaps it is time for another war.  NATO got its much needed practice in Libya (nothing beats war games like a real war).  Isreal has moved its warships off the coast of Egypt (apparently the Muslim Brotherhood has significant Naval capacity).  And now for the US Navy...

The most recently released public information about deployment is shown below:

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An amateur would assess the situation as follows:
(1) The two battle groups in western pacific have their home port in Japan.  However it looks like they are out and about making sure China knows we are paying attention to what is going on.
(2) Three battle groups are poised off the coast of Iran for obvious reasons.
(3) The rest of the battle groups are defending the East and West coasts of US.  The greatest risk to the US is for some Iranian frieghter to launch a missle with EMP payload thus driving the US back to the stone age.

If things get really bad, perhaps the US will suspend the 2012 elections due to the emergency and we won't have to be burdened by those ridiculous political TV commercials that interrupt our zeitgeist.