Posted on 02/21/2006 9:13:28 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
February 21, 2006 - 11:27.
You can take the man out of CBS and NBC, but apparently you can't take the MSM out of the man.
Long-time MSMer Marvin Kalb, former moderator of Meet the Press, is now a Fox News contributor. But the specialist on foreign affairs is still offering up opinions that would put him in the mainstream back at CBS or NBC.
Interviewed by Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, Kalb offered a very grim take on the nuclear stalemate with Iran, suggesting that any diplomatic or economic sanctions aimed at the country could result in Iranian retaliation in the oil markets.
Kalb might well be right. But he took his un-rosy scenario one giant step further, flatly stating that U.S. air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities "are not going to work." It wasn't clear if he meant that in military or diplomatic terms, or some combination thereof, though he did add "imagine the reaction if the U.S. were to bomb another Moslem country."
Marvin, imagine the reaction if the U.S. fails to act and Iran hits a U.S. ally or the U.S. itself with a nuclear weapon.
Fox News ping to Today show ping list.
Well if Marvin Kalb says so, it must be true.
Who cares what a talking head says! Maybe we can send Kalb over there to get the real skinny then admit he is a spy.
In an effort to be "fair and balanced", Fox continues to interview the likes of this clown.
Iraq didn't have as many nuke sites like Iran has
I'm not saying it's not possible to bomb the sites .. but it's won't be easy either
Oh man... if I'm not mistaken this guy Marvin Kalb used to have a show on CNN as well. This guy was definitely a liberal used to take pot shots at Republicans consistantly.
Tactical nukes will work. The radiation will make it impossible to go near the sites.
Exactly, When Kalb made that absurd statement this morning, the liberal bum was not even challenged.
FOX rolled shamefully on this piece of liberal flotsam.
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Old Marvin needs an enema.
"Kalb offered a very grim take on the nuclear stalemate with Iran" --- Marvin would be grim if Catherine Zeta Jones was sitting in his lap in her underwear.
True, but if little Israel was able to take care of one Iraqi site, I believe the combined might of the US military could deal with multiple Iranian sites.
Marvin is on leave from the circus.
Well if it was easy, it would have been done by now.
Maybe those who are in the closest line of fire should take care of it.
We shouldn't be fighting everyone else's battles for them.
...though he did add "imagine the reaction if the U.S. were to bomb another Moslem country."
that's why i say let the isralies do it
You're right, from all I've heard and read.
Just yesterday, this lefty was leading a Bush bashing seminar on CSPAN, featuring John Dean who said the president was breaking all kinds of laws gathering signals intelligence as Kalb nodded his head in agreement.
Another player was an editor from the Nation. Don't know who the rest were, since I kept clicking once I heard the crap coming out of Dean.
LOL. His photo does appear in the online dictionary definition of 'saturnine.' See also: 'snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky' ;-)
It did, but let's be fair; that was Iraq's only nuclear facility. And it wasn't operational yet.
In the case of Iran, you have multiple facilities. And while the common censensus is that they are a number of years away from a nuke, I personally believe they are closer.
Even with nukes, you couldn't guarantee a 100% clearance rate on Iran's ability to both create weapons and any possible inventory they may already possess.
I'd rather see a covert op to sabotage a plant and have it go critical. Make them scared to use the plants.
I don't think it'll work either. Our bombing of Osirak was a surprise; this won't be -- the Iranians have taken more than adequate preparations to distribute risk and fortify command centers. I'm not sure of the best way to proceed, but simple air strikes will not alone work.
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