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Iran's Vast Military Inferiority and the Prospect of Nukes
American Thinker ^ | December 15, 2007 | James Lewis

Posted on 12/15/2007 8:02:04 AM PST by america4vr

One madman with a gun can hold off a hundred cops. The difference is who is more willing to lose his life. Such is the situation between the Khomeini regime and those it has directly threatened.

Beginning with Khomeini's rise to power after 1979, the regime has constantly threatened others, and celebrated its own readiness for martyrdom --- which it amply proved in the war with Saddam Hussein. Today Tehran's mortal enemies' list goes far beyond Israel to include Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, Jordan, Lebanon, France, Britain, and the United States.

Yet Max Boot points out in the Wall Street Journal that the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia together have

"... 627 combat-capable aircraft vs. only 286 for Iran, and most of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) aircraft are much more advanced. The GCC is well-supplied with modern American fighter-bombers--F-15s, F-16s, F-18s--and they are buying more top-of-the-line hardware all the time. Iran, by contrast, is still reliant on F-4s and F-5s acquired by the shah three decades ago, supplemented by a few more modern Russian and Chinese fighters."

Add American combat aircraft available in the region, and the advantage over Tehran is well more than doubled again. Add Israel's air force, and it is tripled. Add the Europeans, who are also threatened, and it would be quadrupled. In total, there is at least a four-to-one advantage in air power. But just like that one madman holding off a hundred soldiers, the difference is in the willingness to take a risk.

That is presumably why Ayatollah Khamenei selected Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad to become the public face of the regime, after a dubious election. A'jad is just the scariest guy imaginable, who can keep Tehran's enemies paralyzed until it reaches its long-term goal of nukes.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: armageddon; iran; nuclearterrorism; wwiii
No serious person believes Tehran isn't going for nuclear weapons; not even the drafters of the risible NI

That statement speaks for itself in demonstrating what a mockery the NIE Report is, one that goes to the very heart of Iran's credibility,intention towards nuclear capability. So, if no serious person believes Tehran isn't going for nuclear weapons what does that say about the NIE Report?

Obviously, the massive military advantage for Iran's potential victims disappears with Tehran's first nuclear weapon. A single nuke would make the Khomeini revolution invulnerable, no matter how much its own people hate it.

Yes, that is the first of many horrors that will come to fruition if Tehran is not stopped.

Is it conceivable that Tehran's neighbors will actually use their military advantage and act jointly to take away its suicide bomb? Boot quotes a senior Arab official as saying that "'If we accept Iran as a nuclear power that is like accepting Hitler in 1933-34,' warned one senior Arab official, using the kind of analogy that back in Washington would get him dismissed as a neocon warmonger."

What does that say about the bleak scenario we face with Tehran's acquisition of nuclear weapons? Like accepting Hitler in 1933-34?
Why is no one but an anonymous Arab source saying the things that must be said out in the open, as part of an overall strategy against Iran??

1 posted on 12/15/2007 8:02:05 AM PST by america4vr
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To: america4vr

Iran's Vast Military Inferiority

LOL, it's true. The Revolutionary Guards in action

Tehran's mortal enemies' list goes far beyond Israel to include Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, Jordan, Lebanon, France, Britain, and the United States.

Meanwhile, their list of allies includes Congress, the CIA, the UN, Russia, Venezuela, China, and Italy. Geez even the Saudis chose the right side for crying out loud. The Dems in Congress and the libs who wrote the NIE are foolish and going to allow some bad things to happen if they don't wisen up on this issue.
2 posted on 12/15/2007 8:10:54 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: G8 Diplomat
...and check out an Iranian SWAT team in action
3 posted on 12/15/2007 8:11:42 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: G8 Diplomat

It’s like half-time with people who can’t march. Any high school band in Oklahoma would but them to shame.


4 posted on 12/15/2007 8:15:15 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: G8 Diplomat

We need to add Argentina to the list, Iran attacked them a few years ago.


5 posted on 12/15/2007 8:50:23 AM PST by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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To: america4vr
One madman with a gun can hold off a hundred cops.

Not if you drop a JDAM on his head. :-)

6 posted on 12/15/2007 8:54:37 AM PST by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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To: G8 Diplomat

Hahaha, “swat team” worth waiting till the end for.


7 posted on 12/15/2007 8:58:55 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: america4vr
Boot quotes a Arab official as saying that "'If we accept Iran as a nuclear power that is like accepting Hitler in 1933-34,' warned one senior Arab official, using the kind of analogy that back in Washington would get him dismissed as a neocon warmonger."

They're forgetting the Alice-in-Wonderland aspect of political debate in the United States. The first person to make a Hitler-analogy loses the debate in today's Media. It's a shame because in this case the analogy is correct.

8 posted on 12/15/2007 9:25:13 AM PST by Tallguy (Climate is what you plan for, weather is what you get.)
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To: Recon Dad

OK. Also I forgot Syria on the allies list.


9 posted on 12/15/2007 9:47:48 AM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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