Posted on 09/27/2009 11:00:22 AM PDT by Starman417
In wake of the disclosure that Iran's been secretly developing (at least one) secret underground uranium enrichment facility (sounds like spies were caught) or face more harsh words and stern warnings from the "outraged" international community, Iran offers the following response:
Iran said it successfully test-fired short-range missiles during military drills Sunday by the elite Revolutionary Guard, a show of force days after the U.S. warned Tehran over a newly revealed underground nuclear facility it was secretly constructing.Gen. Hossein Salami, head of the Revolutionary Guard Air Force, said Iran also tested a multiple missile launcher for the first time. The official English-language Press TV showed pictures of at least two missiles being fired simultaneously and said they were from Sunday's drill in a central Iran desert. In the clip, men could be heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" as the missiles were launched.
"We are going to respond to any military action in a crushing manner and it doesn't make any difference which country or regime has launched the aggression," state media quoted Salami as saying. He said the missiles successfully hit their targets.
President Obama's biggest weakness is the perception (and the reality?) that he is "no George W. Bush"; that military action as a means of kumbaya diplomacy is off the tables and not an option. In short, President Obama is not feared.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
And the Russians claim “CErtainly Comrade Obama..we vill cut down our nukes as surely as yours” (/hide nukes).
And then the Russians will point at Obama..and laugh.
The original of course was “peace through strength”.
The logical opposite of that is not, obviously “peace through weakness”.
The opposite of peace through strength, is war.
peace through weakness means domination.. period.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
or, more properly
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
I love the web -
Author - Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
The saying is one of many from or based on his work, Epitoma rei militaris, possibly written around the year 390 AD. There is a subtle difference in the grammar of the two statements.
The first is emphatic, or vivid. It is a conditional sentence introduced by an adverbial clause with a verb in the indicative mood.
Ordinarily one would expect a main verb in the indicative but the author switches to the imperative mood. The result is a peremptory “if you really desire peace, prepare for war.”
The sentence from Vegetius is a hypothesis. It is a less vivid conditional sentence, in suppositional or should-would construction with an adjectival clause and both verbs in the subjunctive mood: “whoever therefore should desire peace would prepare for war.”
Sun Tzu would not approve.
Hey, weak RATs and RINOs, We The People Are Coming in 2010 and 2012; that’s a vow.
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/capitol-view-lo-res.jpg
May your chains rest lightly on your shoulders...
“THERE SHALL BE PEACE IN OUR TIME. OR DID SOROS TELL ME IT WAS TIME TO SMASH AMERICA TO PIECES? Without Mr. Teleprompter, I get sooo confused any more…”
All men lose when freedom fails, And good men rot in filthy jails. And those who cried “Appease, appease…” Are HANGED by those they sought to please.
"The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
More like Slavery through Weakness.
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