Iran's Strategy Is Crudely Obvious--So Why Can't We Fight It?

RealClearPolitics ^ | August 01, 2006 | Robert Tracinski

[Brilliant]

Take their oil, and give it to Iraq or Kuwait.

[DariusBane]

Fight this thing like WWII. Fire bomb Tehran, and Damascus, Nuke Mecca and Medina. They will beg us for an unconditional surrender.

[EagleUSA]

You can bet that the Israelis are getting "Keyhole" satt photos and intel on a regular basis. I would not think for a moment that the USA is sitting passively by, not providing intel and other data to them. Terrorists and Iran (redundant) are our enemy too.

[brain bleeds red]

The joke going around all the blogs recently is that it's not a World War until France surrenders. But it's not really a World War until the French become collaborators.

Priceless.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I can answer that question in one word: Democrats.

[null and void]

Wouldn't the french object?

[exit82]

Good article. Iran is the head of the hydra of terror, and has been for thirty years.

Time for a beheading.

[Don Corleone]

Altogether now...can you say"LIBERAL POLITICAL CORRECTNESS?"

[Monti Cello]

This guy makes the mistake of thinking that most leaders don't actually know what is going on. And the fact that they do makes the situation even scarier.

It is basic opportunism on the part of the 'duped'.

I hold out hope that the leaders who count in the Oval Office and Pentagon have a good handle on things.

[oceanview]

and the US media.

[phoenix0468]

That time passed twenty seven years ago when they kidnapped our diplomats and attacked our embassy. Now it's time to kill the monster and burn the remains.

[alarm rider]

IMO, PC and lack of strong non-PC leadership.

[MHGinTN]

An agenda lurks insidiously behind this article. "Secretary Rice has a reputation as an intelligent, hard-charging woman who doesn't scare easily. Over the past few months, she has blown that reputation, caving in to Iran and its European sympathizers ..." That piece of bullsh!t opinion reveals the agenda pushing this crap article which has 90% reality and 10% political agenda to spit yet again on this President and the Republican leadership, all designed to steer public opinion toward a democrat return to power! The author couldn't know 1/10 of the things going on under the radar which Secretary Rice is handling, yet this piece of crap propagandist claims she is cowering and confused. Sadly, this sort of fecal filler journalism will effect the minds of some voters and perhaps even aid the feckless democrats in the fall.

[JohnCliftn]

We are fighting it. And, I think, winning.

[DariusBane]

Yes, but the French have already surrendered their cities to the muzzies. It used to be french wine and french bread. Now it will stale water and flat bread. Let them reap what they sew. 'c'est la vie'.

[FastCoyote]

I think the US, Israel, Britain and some others know full well where this is headed. In that case, you just look at the current situation as Israel taking out the Iranians' Hezbollah flank before the serious stuff starts, probably right after the US elections in November.

In fact, even if that isn't the conscious plan, that is what is going to happen just through shear momentum. The only question is whether you detour through Syria or go straight to Tehran.

[AdvisorB]

[USNBandit]

Even prior to WWII the world went through a phase like this. All Hitler wanted was a little piece of Czechoslovakia.

The simple answer is that the fear of war, and it's costs, keep free people from going lightly into such an endeavor.....even when it seems inevitable.

[FightThePower!]

Right on! This war could be won in 6 months with out using nuclear weapons if only we had the will to win it.