[GrandEagle]

Interesting game of Chicken they are playing.
Either he is very stupid, or Iran has available to them weapons we are not aware of - yet. The third option is that he underestimates the US and is betting the entire farm that we won't do anything.
I doubt seriously if they are that stupid.

Even in back in high school, it was wise not to underestimate the little loud mouth pip-squeak; sometimes he was just a stupid loud mouth, sometimes he knew something you didn't know he knew.
I do hope we do our homework very well.

Cordially,
GE

[thoughtomator]

The third option is that he underestimates the US and is betting the entire farm that we won't do anything.

Or perhaps doesn't care what we do as long as they get to trigger their end days and earn their ticket to their virgins in paradise.

[HawaiianGecko]

Interesting game of Chicken they are playing.
 

Yes, but it is sure driving up the price of oil and making them a ton of money.  The price of oil has gone up 25% in the last few weeks and their cost of production has gone up zero.

 

[ModelBreaker]

Either he is very stupid, or Iran has available to them weapons we are not aware of - yet. The third option is that he underestimates the US and is betting the entire farm that we won't do anything. I doubt seriously if they are that stupid.

Not so stupid. All he has to do is stall until 2008 and hope a dem is elected. He remembers Jimmy fondly. He will remember the next dem president fondly. That president will permit the establishment of a nuclear Islamic Calphate in the middle east. The stakes are that high in 2008.

[SevenMinusOne]

The irony here that most are missing is that "time" is on our side on this issue (currently). In the short run. This nut-cake somewhat surprisingly understands this -

But we'll just keep letting him take that rope -

Remember we will fight this GWOT at the times and places of our choosing....not our enemies.

[roaddog727]

"The third option is that he underestimates the US and is betting the entire farm that we won't do anything."

As a rule, whenever the Arabs/persians figure we will or will not do something, they always miscalculate.

Bin Laden did, Saddam did. Now it's "Almond-ding's" turn to fatally miscalculate.

[WoofDog123]

" Either he is very stupid, or Iran has available to them weapons we are not aware of - yet."

I suspect iran has capabilities currently not being discussed publicly which the admin knows about and which are greatly influencing policy with iran. Specifically I would be surprised if iran didn't have some number of nukes, ex-soviet or small-project construction of whatever provenance. As far as maintenance on any ussr nukes, that might be another matter.