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The Spymaster: Meir Dagan on Iran's threat (Iran is Rational?)
CBS News ^
| March 11, 2012 7:06 PM
| Lesley Stahl
Posted on 03/11/2012 4:55:49 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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H/T to the Drudge Report.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
No wonder Bibi fired him.
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posted on
03/11/2012 5:00:27 PM PDT
by
Stepan12
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I wouldn’t call them rational. Calculating, perhaps, but not rational.
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posted on
03/11/2012 5:07:45 PM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Iran built a highway from a well to the middle of Tehran for the Mahdi they expect to pop up and lead the muzzies to world conquest.
Israel wanting to stake their existence on that kind of rationalism is as suicidal as expecting Obama to have their back.
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posted on
03/11/2012 5:11:14 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: AU72
expecting Obama to have their back. ....is downright irational all right!
To: SJackson; NormsRevenge; blam; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; TigersEye
To: Boogieman
Calculating, perhaps, but not rational.
I think that's what he meant. He said not rational in the Western sense. He meant rational as in they have a plan. We, or should I say Western, tend to think that rational means 'makes sense in a good way'. Stahl just didn't get what he was saying half the time it seemed to me.
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posted on
03/11/2012 5:23:07 PM PDT
by
visualops
(artlife.us)
To: visualops
Yes, I think he took “rational” to mean “reasonable”, which the Mullahs are anything but.
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posted on
03/11/2012 5:35:55 PM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Mr. Dagan is a complex man and an Israeli patriot. This interview has been done with the sole purpose of enhancing Israel’s position.It may be intended to confuse the Iranians. If an attack on Iran is the only way to stop or significantly delay them from acquiring nuclear weapons, then it will happen. Facts will determine Netanyahu’s ultimate decision. Rhetoric be it dovish or hawkish won’t mean anything. If Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel is the secular leader and defender of the Jewish people. He will do what needs to be done however difficult.
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posted on
03/11/2012 6:12:03 PM PDT
by
allendale
To: Stepan12
“No wonder Bibi fired him.”
Agree, this ex spy chief is yapping now because he was canned. He is making it harder for Israel to defend itself and giving ammo to weenies like Obama. He says he walks and travels alone. Some radical Muslim militants will soon take him out for his past works.
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posted on
03/11/2012 6:41:52 PM PDT
by
RicocheT
(Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Right after 0bama counsels patience and diplomacy with the nut cases in Iran, we see several major news outlets running stories on the necessity of patience in dealing with Iran.
Such a coincidence! /s
It really is a miracle that so many journalists' lips can fit on 0bama's skinny, black, commie a$$.
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posted on
03/11/2012 6:54:36 PM PDT
by
pierrem15
(Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
To: allendale
“Mr. Dagan is a complex man and an Israeli patriot”
Agree
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:19:33 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: visualops
Agree.
I watched most of it, & she’s an idiot
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posted on
03/11/2012 7:23:12 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I watched the video. I was not aware of his position within the Mossad. It is interesting that he even considered the interview.
To: Boogieman
To be calculating you must be capable of rational thought . The philosophical framework that exists for the Iranians is not that of “Western civilization” . If you take this simple fact into account & can get some idea of exactly the Iranians think you can understand that in their way they are in fact rational.
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posted on
03/12/2012 12:31:02 AM PDT
by
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posted on
03/12/2012 5:33:15 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(The Pilgrims Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do !)
To: allendale
The timing of Israeli pre-emption does not depend exclusively on WHEN they expect the Iranian A-bomb becomes a reality. There are other factors, too. The Israelis may calculate that they presently have maximum political leverage over the US for instance.
An Israeli first-strike may require the USAF to sustain & widen the air assault. It Israel calculates that they can achieve that result now, but not later, then they may move now.
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posted on
03/12/2012 6:29:02 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
(It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
To: Nebr FAL owner
Well, maybe they are “rational” by some measure, but they accept false assumptions as givens, so they don’t arrive at rational results. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
To: Boogieman
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posted on
03/12/2012 10:53:43 AM PDT
by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
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03/12/2012 11:11:52 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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