“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.
We shall see who is right. I have strong faith that President Bush will destroy Iran nukes and probably all their military infrastructures before his term ends. The President of the United States hold 2/3 of power in the US, and we are very fortunate for that.
Raises a good question, ie, how this incident affects the various on- lookers in the world. Israel would be justified by the British nonresponse as well as by the US House failure even to take note before scuttling off on another squalid vacation, to conclude that the Western Alliance is not worthy of trust.
The rest of the moslem world must surely see this as marking just one more turn in the tiresome waxing and waning of the infidel, draining all meaning from the events of the last four years--hence Sadr's sticking his fat little head up from his protective crouch, and the Iranian a-holes' declaring National Nuclear Day today. They know the left has vitiated the West and they fully intend to pursue the advantage.
Russia and China must be grinning as they look at their cards and deduce how much the Brits, or we, are willing to put on the table from now on. India may be reconsidering who they want to throw in with.
It ain't just about a pack of feckless Royal marines and sailors.
Raises a good question, ie, how this incident affects the various on- lookers in the world. Israel would be justified by the British nonresponse as well as by the US House failure even to take note before scuttling off on another squalid vacation, to conclude that the Western Alliance is not worthy of trust.
The rest of the moslem world must surely see this as marking just one more turn in the tiresome waxing and waning of the infidel, draining all meaning from the events of the last four years--hence Sadr's sticking his fat little head up from his protective crouch, and the Iranian a-holes' declaring National Nuclear Day today. They know the left has vitiated the West and they fully intend to pursue the advantage.
Russia and China must be grinning as they look at their cards and deduce how much the Brits, or we, are willing to put on the table from now on. India may be reconsidering who they want to throw in with.
It ain't just about a pack of feckless Royal marines and sailors.