Posted on 05/22/2007 8:01:45 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
Podhoretz thoughtfully examines all the conventional pros and cons of attacking Iran. He quotes Bernard Lewis, the greatest authority of our time on the Islamic world: "MAD, mutual assured destruction, [was effective] right through the Cold War. Both sides had nuclear weapons. Neither side used them, because both sides knew the other would retaliate in kind. This will not work with a religious fanatic [like Ahmadinejad]. For him, mutual assured destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement. We know already that [Iran's leaders] do not give a damn about killing their own people in great numbers. We have seen it again and again. In the final scenario, and this applies all the more strongly if they kill large numbers of thir own people, they are doing them a favor. They are giving them a quick free pass to heaven and all its delights."
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Maybe we knew something in advance? (Maybe we 'helped' them)...
If you like what is going on in Iraq right now, go ahead and bomb a major islamic religous center. You would swing the 80% of them from a neutral stand to a negative one.
Bombing is not the solution to everything. Pacificism isnt either.
Iran will topple from within. THAT is where we should focus. When they get to the point of being close to building the bomb, we should take out those facilities only.
Bombing dams and other non military sites is simply stupid and not in the best interest of our overall mission: which is regime change and a positive relationship with the Iranian people.
Thank you Dr. Phil.
After all, what kind of 'god' can't protect this holiest of holies, an object that he requires everyone bend over and worship five times every day.
One that is so crucial that every True Believer must make at least one physical pilgrimage to visit in order to be in good grace with their pig-dog-god.
Yes, short term there would be a bloodbath the likes of which the world has never seen short of a Biblical Prophet's nightmares, but that will die down in less than a century.
The alternative is to have a much worse bloodbath spread over several millenia.
Right now we are cutting the minor heads, and are dismayed when new ones grow to replace them.
We need to kill the multi-headed dragon at its core.
God bless President Bush and our brave troops for protecting our freedom and our way of life.
We can kill all the terrorists that walk out in front of us, but if other terrorists are able to walk in BEHIND us via our southern borders, the war on terror becomes an exercise in futility.
The illegal immigration issue IS a national security issue and I for one do not think our national security is enhanced when our Commander-in-Chief signs off on an amnesty deal that carries the stamp of approval of Senator Chappaquiddick and his fellow ‘Rats.
Nor do I think our national security is enhanced when law abiding American citizens have to provide a 5 year employment history to any prospective employer, with that data to be shared with any federal agency with access to that information, that’s a throwback to a Soviet-style police state and Americans should have no part of it, don’t you agree?
The one thing John McCain ever said that I loved: “Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.”
d'oh!
*slaps forehead*
I plead caffeine deficiency...
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