[nuconvert]

"A “Bermuda Triangle” from Iraq to Lebanon to Palestine is being taken over by Iran’s allies through the ballot box. It could pull in the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, and when it does the same to the Shiites of the oil-rich Eastern province of Saudi Arabia, the encirclement of the Persian Gulf will be complete. Islamists will have achieved what the Soviets could not, namely complete control of the Persian Gulf oil and the jugular of Western economies. They would then have a latter day Caliphate to lead all the forces that are against the post Cold War vision of the free world."

"All the Islamic Republic needs in order to achieve this goal is to be able to use low intensity violence to supplement its financial, intelligence and organizational support for its allies. That, ladies and gentlemen, is why Iran needs the bomb: to neutralize the conventional military superiority of the West, and continue to use terrorism and low intensity violence without the fear of escalation to high intensity conventional warfare."

"They (the regime) fragmented the student movement through a combination of torture, imprisonment, building a fifth column, and even a vast drug ring. Can you imagine, a year prior to the vast student protests of 1999, you could seldom find drugs in dorms; a year later heroin was cheaper than tobacco! This does not happen in authoritarian states, unless underwritten by the state itself. "

[fooman]

I dated his sister once. True story, though she did have SCS.

[fooman]

We have been waiting for years for democracy to spring up. I think the targeted military strikes could be part of the campaign as long as we only take out nuke sites.

[EternalHope]

He missed two crucial points:

1. NO Progress has been made by the people of Iran to free themselves. There is no reason to believe they ever will.

We have hoped and waited for the Iranian people themselves to solve their own problem, but the time for waiting is over. We cannot wait more than a few more weeks.

2. The current government of Iran believes the Mahdi is coming soon, probably to be revealed sometime THIS YEAR.

Any analysis that fails to consider this has missed the most important motivator behind current Iranian behavior. A particularly pernicious part of the Mahdi "prophecy" is that the Mahdi is more likely to decide to return at a time of intense turmoil. Hence, Iranian leaders actually think that CREATING that turmoil is a GOOD thing, even if they are initially on the losing end.

We are faced with a fanatic regime bent on our total destruction, and convinced that divine help is on the way. We could defeat this insane regime easily at any time if our own nation were united. Thanks to the leaders of the Democrat party, we are not. The situation is thus quite dire.

[Albion Wilde]

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[Valin]

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