Posted on 04/11/2007 9:31:59 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
the Iranians. They are allowed to kill our guys with total impunity
The question is why on earth does our President Bush allow it. At least during Nam there was an excuse to hold back, we had the biggest nuclear power (USSR) and the largest army in the world (China) backing N. Vietnam.
Today there is no country or countries that will go to war against US over Iran.
Yet the White House just talks.
Unless of course WE are stalling so as to build up enough supplies to be able to annihilate Iran quickly, perhaps learning from the Israeli experience in Lebanon.
“Unless of course WE are stalling so as to build up enough supplies to be able to annihilate Iran quickly, perhaps learning from the Israeli experience in Lebanon.”
I doubt it. Our gov’t (read: President Bush) allows Iran to kill our guys each day and piss in our face while laughing at us. I see no will whatsoever to stop, prevent or even discourage it.
I think the source of this complete failure and weakness is the State Department. But it just doesn’t matter. We have basicaly surrendered to Iran.
The point is that Iran supplying insurgents was a fairly likely scenario that should have been foreseen by military planners prior to embarking on the war in the first place.
From Iran’s point of view they have an enemy encamped on their flank, of course the obvious action is to leverage their proxies (ie the radical Shiites) to make life difficult for the US. A ten year old playing Age of Empires could have figured that out.
People on this thread seem to have forgotten that all the fleet has just gotten into place.
And that the evidence of Iran’s murderous meddling is becoming more and more deliberately publicized.
And that the seizure of the British personnel needs responding to.
And that the setting of international opinion is a requisite to armed action.
And that action on Iran - even the evident possibility of it - is going to assuredly affect oil prices. Why should the President or anyone else deliberately raise oil prices prior to an attack by making noisy threats?
That would just give the Democrats another attack theme
Deliberate and resolute actions, not words, are needed. And they are surely in the works - most likely coming sooner rather than later.
The idea is to isolate Iran - not ourselves.
And to provide basis for governments to support us, when there are agitating sectors within those countries urging that their governments oppose us. That is crucial in such situations as Pakistan.
There are situations where it is imperative to go it alone (as the Brits should have done on the piracy), but in the case of striking Iran there has to be a show of good cause because for, one thing, we have to deal with all the Arab countries - four of which together in the Middle East hold about 40 percent of the world’s petroleum reserves (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.)
Methodical discipline is a companion of successful warfare.
four of which together in the Middle East hold about 40 percent of the world’s petroleum reserves (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.)
Instead we give THEM the supposed capability to hurt US more than we can hurt them.
Of course if we don’t want to disturb anyone’s opinion than yes a flea on a camels nose will be able to hurt us.
BUT we are THE Superpower of this entire earth. Its just we have leaders who are afraid to use that POWER. They think the cost in the long run will be to great. They fail to value correctly the lives of American citizens who will soon be vaporized if we continue to wait for the world to back US.
Crush the enemy like we did in WW2 or let them slip out of our killing zone like in Vietnam.
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