Posted on 12/26/2005 9:07:25 AM PST by F14 Pilot
FREEDOM FOR IRAN PING
You are being an optimist. The only hope in Iran is the imposition of external force to remove the police state that has complete control over the population.
Allies under control of a fanatical regime are unreliable and ineffective. Iranians are sending suicide bombers to Iraq, yet to the best of my knowledge not one has sent him or her self to Tehran in opposition to the regime.
These stories are designed to give the west hope of internal change while the regime develops long range delivery systems for their nuclears.
Excellent point.
Why doesn't someone shoot a rocket at that idiot President of theirs?
Because it would have the same effect on their people as flying jets into the WTC had on ours. My father used to tell me that any fool can learn form his own mistakes, but if you’re smart you’ll learn from the mistakes of others.
Assassination attempt on Iran's Ahmadinejad?
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | December 17th, 2005
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542599/posts
Profiles In Democratic Courage (NOT!)
CaptainsQuartersblog.com ^ | December 23, 2005 | Captain Ed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1546368/posts
none of the sep.11 terrorists were from Iran
Right. What's your point.
my point is that the Iranian nation is not a terrorist nation, the illegitimate government of Iran is
An attack generally galvanizes nationalistic instincts. If we attacked Iran for building nukes, supporting terrorists and threatening Israel, the sympathies of its people would likely be overwhelmed by popular anger at what they’d perceive as an foreign power overreaching to impose their values by violence, especially if it wasn’t supported by the EU (which is unlikely) or Russia (which is certainly not going to happen). If we take out Iran’s nukes, it will either need to be very precise and very clean, or need to follow some aggression to further justify it. Otherwise, the price will be a more united and perhaps more dangerous opposition.
agreed
War is never precise nor surgical nor clean ... neither is mass destruction in the hands of madmen ... the events of the 1930's and 40's should have taught us well.
They murdered 243 Marines in Lebanon and blew up the US embassy a couple of times IIRC.
So, when the Iranian people start gibbeting these thugs in the streets I'll let the Iranian people off the hook for the actions of their government.
I also find this line from the article interesting. "They value human life and its pleasures, and they want change -- but not at any cost. "
That makes them pussies who won't fight for their own freedom. If they won't fight for their own freedom they can't complain if they get caught in the crossfire.
L
have you ever lived under dictatorship?
if your answer is No, then please stop lecturing us on how we should fight our way out of this mess
thnx
Make a few of those 'religious police' thugs disappear when they show up at your neighbors homes and I'll stand up and applaud.
Now your 'leaders' are playing with nuclear fire and threatening to wipe other countries off the map. What are we supposed to do, stand around and do nothing while those madmen carry out their plans?
We sat around while your government carried out the most hideous religious persecution against the Ba'Hais a while back. We aren't going to let your country go nuclear.
This Americans advice to you is to get busy trying to bring this regime down by whatever means necessary because if you don't we're going to.
L
I would prefer to hear how Iranian youth feels and thinks from Iranian youth, thank you. I wonder how many of the 700,000 Iranian bloggers refer to themselves as a volcano or an elephant?
"So with this thriving generation, with this crashing wave, it's obvious that there is potential for explosion -- but that doesn't necessarily mean that there will be an explosion, an eruption."
Does he have an opinion or not? It's rather difficult to tell, isn't it?
I disagree with you Lurker
Since we do not hear about their unrests, protests and actions on CNNCBSABCNBCCBCBBC.... it doesn't mean that they aren't fighting
Indeed I believe they are and if you read more, you can see that they do what they can
The problem as I see it is that the Iranian government is populated by murderous thugs while most of the people just want to live in peace. This is a serious dilemma considering that your government is openly developing nuclear weapons.
We simply cannot tolerate that. So, the clock is ticking for Iran and it's long suffering people.
Good luck.
L
And the unlikelihood of being able to reproduce Israel’s surgical success against these targets is why we haven’t attacked. If we started a war now, it would be us against 95% of the world. That would harden Iranian nationalism and resistance, we’d be drained, and the only winner would be Democrats blaming neocon unilateralists for our humiliation.
Keep an eye on the Iran futures on intrade.com
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