It appears Iran feels they have won the coin toss
...and they have elected to receive.
Posted on 01/26/2006 2:38:37 PM PST by Dark Skies
"Unthinkable"..."Unimaginable" These Europeons are incapable of defending themselves, much less anything else. If it wasn't for Israel, I'd say let Teheran have the bomb. "The left says this...The right says that." What a pathetic parody of civilization Europe has become.
And, since so few people see/understand it, so is Afghanistan.
Very, very deep and spread out. But I'll bet the allied brass (U.S., U.K., IDF et al) are working overtime on it.
Assassination is your friend.
Decap Iranian C&C. That's all. Just do it.
See, you got it down to one sentence.
Push has come to shove.
It appears Iran feels they have won the coin toss
...and they have elected to receive.
After Afghanistan, the country we had the best rationale to overthrow was Iraq. While taking care of Saddam and his Ba'athist remnants, and the Islamofascists drawn into the meat grinder, world opinion has now solidified against Iran and Syria. Looks to me like things are working very well.
True. We're well positioned to hit Iran on two fronts.
I can't figure out why Europoeans don't make the obvious comparison, except European public schools may not be better than US public schools...in the lump, that is. How would the folks in England feel if Adolf Hitler had waited until his heavy water efforts had been completed, or even the Me262 before the Battle of Britain began. That battle would have been over in about 15 minutes and German would be the official language spoken in London these days.
I guess in war I'm starting to appreciate the thoughts of US Grant. You can be magnanimous in victory, but before that happens you had better win, and win so the bad guys can't look back and ask: What if? There can't be any "what ifs," or the war really isn't over.
Then why is Muqtada still breathing?
unlikely bushgov planning in iraq including an active insurgency of native and foreign insurgents, suicide bombers, IED's, etc., at this level of activity 3 years out. This impacts the operational forces available for iran i assume.
So Condi was an "enabler" for letting the UN and Europeans take the lead in diplomacy with Iran (whom they have been busily wheeling and dealing with for the past 25 years as the US attempted to maintain unilateral sanctions.
But the same talking heads in Europe scorn George Bush as a "cowboy" for not letting the UN handle Iraq with diplomacy.
Fine. Let Britain France and Gemany declare war on Iran and ask the US to join in a coalition. Our response will not likely resemble theirs of 2003.
This may be true in England, but I haven't heard a peep out of the Democrats to this effect. Many of them are saying that the Iraq war was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, but they sure as hell aren't saying what the right war would have been.
We have come down this road to this point because a) the Euros have turned into effete cowards, and b) the mass media and the Democrat fifth column have done everything humanly possible to undermine President Bush on the issue of war.
I don't think we took on the wrong country first. But I do think we have delayed several years too long to take on the next countries on the list: Syria and Iraq. That was self-evidently the list from the very first. And if not for the Demoncrats, we would already be much further down that list.
There's still time, but not a whole lot, especially with Israel now seemingly paralyzed.
It's a fake, but nice all the same.
Push has come to shove.
Agreed. I see lots of discussion of "invading Iran." The more immediate issue will be repelling an Iranian invasion of Iraq.
Great article and very sobering.
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