Posted on 07/23/2004 1:15:20 PM PDT by freedom44
Edited on 07/23/2004 1:19:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Did we invade the wrong country? One of the lessons now being drawn from the 9/11 report is that Iran was the real threat. The Iraq War critics have a new line of attack: We should have done Iran instead. Well, of course Iran is a threat. But how exactly would the critics have "done" Iran? Iran is a serious country with a serious army. Can you imagine the Iraq War critics actually supporting war with Iran?
If not war, what then? The Bush administration, having decided that invading one axis-of-evil country was about as much as the country can bear, has gone multilateral on Iran. Washington delegated the issue to a committee of three - the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany - that has been meeting with the Iranians to get them to shut down their nuclear program.
The result? They have been led by the nose. Time is of the essence, and the runaround that the Tehran Three have gotten from the mullahs has meant that we have lost at least nine months in doing anything to stop the Iranian nuclear program.
Either we do the job or the Israelis will. Something tells me we will strike first but you never know.
Got to admit, Iraq's a great staging area for assaults on Iran...
No, we didn't invade the wrong country. Only a leftist would pose that question.
And just where were we going to invade Iran from
Iran is far more dangerous to the world than Iraq was.
the Iranian nuclear facilities are underground, impenetrable to anything except a nuclear strike. so, what do you propose either Israel or the US do?
The strategy was to surround Iran and aid pro-West groups within the country overthrow the unpopular government. Krauthammer is making a point that this may not happen and we or Israel have to be prepared to strike at Iran's nuclear facilities...soon.
I'm sure of this: Iran is more dangerous than Iraq is now.
Perhaps you and Charlie Krauthammer would like to tell that to some of the families of the American soldiers who have given their lives in Iraq? This wheelchair (er, armchair) general crap is just that, crap.
Charles may not have noticed that those troops are slightly, er, busy.
Actually, Krauthammer says the Iraq invasion has been effective, knocking it out of the Axis of Evil along with Libya for good measure. But, he says, the people who say now that we should have attacked Iran are just saying that, had we proposed to really do it, they would not have supported it.
It reminds me of, during the run-up to the war in Iraq, how all of the anti-war types suddenly discovered North Korea and demanded that we take them out first. Had we really been planning an attack on Pyongyang, they would not have supported it. But demanding it allowed them to talk tough while undermining the real war we were actually preparing to undertake.
This is the same thing. The people on the left (not the folks here) who are talking up war with Iran will flipflop immediately if we start preparing an invasion force to do just that. But if we were really going to do it, we would be very glad Iraq was out of the way, and available as a launch pad. Along with Iran's other neighbor, Afghanistan.
I don't think that is what we are going to do. But whatever we do is going to require steady nerves, and adults in the White House.
Israel will bomb those musliiiimmms out of existence.Bush/Cheney 2004
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Uh huh...
So what are you saying... That it'll take three weeks instead of two?
Iran has been teetering on the brink of an all out civil war, with its younger population lashing out publicly against the mullahs and their theocracy with increaesd frequency.
I'm not a big proponent of the "domino theory" in regards to the whole of the Middle East, but in the specific case of Iran, Iraq was just what the student-led revolt needed to see.
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