Posted on 04/15/2006 8:11:03 AM PDT by Hadean
I was intrigued by this suggestion in your post. Care to elaborate? Even rank speculation would be welcome :)
When playing poker, you don't raise a bet when all you have is a pair of twos and you know the opponet has something better than you (royal flush). Apparently the Iranian leadership doesn't understand this.
"I would advise them not to commit such a strategic error."
Probably refers to the belief (mostly correct) that US Forces are overextended and there just are no troops available for a ground invasion of Iran. I don't think that's so much a threat as it is the Iranians tipping their hand; they plan (should a ground invasion occur) to either grind us to stalemate or overwhelm us with numbers (even if it means every raghead with a pitchfork must take the field).
They'll then take to the airwaves of Al-Jazeera and CNN and embarrass the Great Satan in European capitals, or perhaps repeat the Somalia debacle and drag our dead soldiers through the streets in front of MSNBC cameras.
I don't think he's alluding to nukes at all (don't get caught up on the word "strategic"), but the concentrated PR campaign which history is showing is the best way to beat a Superpower with a militarily inferior force: let the perpetually (but irrationally) guilty, nervous, and panty-bunched back in the USA win the war for you.
Sometimes I think Nutjob Ahmadinejad is so blatantly whackjob obvious, quite on purpose, all an act, so that he thinks that most of the world won't take him too seriously.. then, on the other hand, suppose he played his Nuclear ambitions close to the vest, and didn't make such wild threats to Israel and US.. acted diplomatically, normal.. how might he be percieved then.
Anybody got the picture of the "Ground Zero Ocean"?
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