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To: Forgiven_Sinner

"A serious and irrefutable commentary by Mark Steyn. The interviewed couldn't seem to clue in to the fact we're already at war."

I agree with all of his viewpoints except him saying we could create an Iranian Sunni triangle. The mullahs would easily crush this revolt brutally as the Chinese did in Tieneman in 1989. We have to face reality and that is you need boots on the ground in Syria and Iran to topple these regimes. Bombing them to take out their nuke capability guarantees a major terrorist retaliation with dirty nuke bombs at best, but probably a full mushroom cloud or massive biological attack in NY or LA.

If we are not going to go in on the ground to topple these regimes then let's devote our resources to the following:

1) Energy independance so we can begin disengaging militarily from the Middle East.

2)Massive intelligence expenditures so we don't have a nuclear terrorist incident. We have not fully understood the warring factions of Islam and how to use that to our advantage in the Middle East.

3) We certainly should provide Iran a message that we have a spine using a covert operation that destroys a building right next to where the mullahs meet such as a barracks. That would tell them we have not forgotten about the 280 Marines slain by their hands and that they are not untouchable as they believe they are.

4) Make public statements that we will not hesitate to use a full nuclear attack on the entire nation obliterating them if any nuclear or biological attack occurs by any connection of Iran or Hezbollah.


4 posted on 08/09/2006 5:16:01 AM PDT by quantfive
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To: quantfive
We have to face reality and that is you need boots on the ground in Syria and Iran to topple these regimes. Bombing them to take out their nuke capability guarantees a major terrorist retaliation with dirty nuke bombs at best, but probably a full mushroom cloud or massive biological attack in NY or LA.

And boots on the ground wouldn't ?
10 posted on 08/09/2006 6:32:48 AM PDT by uncbob
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