Great piece, JV. And your conclusions seem sadly accurate. We’re on our own.
The Sun sets on BRitish Empire
Final
Act
BumP
I bet there still some hopping ready to take “siplomacy” to a new level.
How many years has the Iranian Regime been kicking sand at the West? Time to toss some back.
The Empire lost for want of a $50 marine radio.
Run, Britainia
Britainia run away
Britain never ever ever
Shall be brave
Here's an interesting piece by David Reinhard, England And Radical Islam that's related.
There might be one more ally—Israel. Certainly, they have a dog in this hunt.
One direct result of these sailors and Marines behavior, I believe, is today’s announcement from Iran. They feel that no one can, or will, stop them. I pray they have miscalculated.
“I think President Bush may have realized by now that when the time will come to forcefully deal with the ultimate regime of terror, the islamic terrorist regime in Tehran, we are going to do it alone, we have no real allies left who are willing to fight for their freedom and their way of life, it is up to the USA to preserve it for us and the rest of the world.”
Though I agree with most of your post, I disagree with the above.
GWB no longer has the political capital or backing from Congress, EU, NATO, or the UN to attack Iran. Iran would have to directly attack US forces, with much loss of US lives, for the Rats to even contemplate a war with Iran. Clearly, by their words, the Rats do not want to assume the presidency with the country at war. That would have THEM losing the war, which they surely would, thru micro-mis-management & pure cowardess, a la LBJ.
IMO, the only country likely to attack Iran preemptively is Israel. This becomes even more likely as Israel becomes convinced the USA & the West will do nothing to stop Iranian developement of Nukes.
Great post JV. If anything’s to be done, it’s going to have to be before Bush’s term ends. If our gov’t ends up all dem, we’re through!
Excellent editorial and I agree.
I kinda figured the gig was up when George Galloway was on the telly in a leash like a dog.
Any country that will permit that has lost it’s pride.
Good piece, JV. The Brits are verifying your insightful reasoning as they now cease all boarding work and meekly slink from the field with their tail between their legs. Iran needed only to expose the paper brit tiger by kidnapping 15 of her forces and holding them for a few days. Liberalism is a disease now shown to be destroying Britain and soon to crumble the U.S. of A.
There. Fixed the headline.
“There is only one cnation left on this planet to defend the world from islamic terrorism and that this the United States of America. I think President Bush may have realized by now that when the time will come to forcefully deal with the ultimate regime of terror, the islamic terrorist regime in Tehran, we are going to do it alone, we have no real allies left who are willing to fight for their freedom and their way of life, it is up to the USA to preserve it for us and the rest of the world.”
I’ll take Israel, Australia, Japan and Poland against the world any day of the week. Might be like WWII where the Axis comes close to winning at first but they will all die in the end.
“It was in July/7/2005 that the British people made it clear that they were not willing to fight islamic terrorism. The terrorist attacks in London on that day were an act of war by the global islamic terror movement against Britain, but the British people and government refused to consider it as such because it will entail fighting and providing more sacrifice to win this historic struggle. The British people and government had a shockingly cold reaction to those terrible attacks. They have treated the act of war on 7/7/2005 as just a security incident in the “Tube”.”
As a UK citizen I am DISGUSTED by this comment and the propagation of this rampant propaganda. Its an insult to the 50 who died, the thousand who were wounded and the 60 million people who have had to come to terms with it. We aren’t new to this terrorism game. We people of the british isles have been forged in the terrorist fires decades ago. We are strong. resolute. Not quick to anger, yet slow to forgive. My own home town was bombed by the IRA TWICE, not forgetting Manchester, Birmingham and London. Yet we did not surrender to their demands. I had friends DIRECTLY affected by the 7/7 bombs. YET NONE of us are bowed, we are just a little more bloody!