Tehran
Posted on 09/23/2007 5:53:16 PM PDT by CWW
Recently I have had conversations with several intelligence/counter-insurgent military experts regarding potential war with Iran. The response is always the same -- You have no idea how bad Iran wants the U.S. to throw them into that briar patch.
They tell me that there are no good options; just less bad ones. Iran, like Osama Bin Laden, wants this holy war!
Apparently, Iran has been flooding Hezbollah spies into Mexico and other U.S. border areas, and they are armed with stinger missles prepared to shoot down U.S. planes if we attack Iran. This, they say, would be just the first course of a long-planned battle of asymetrical warfare.
Similar actions would be ordered by Iran in Syria and Lebanon. The Middle East would be plunged deep into a bloody war, again, much of it asymetrical.
Oil prices would quickly sky rocket, threatenting to sink not just our economy, but the global economy.
So what do we do? We definintely need NATO and other free nations such as Australia, to stand together. We definitely cannot allow countries like Syria or Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.
Americans need to understand, that a war with Iran will be a larger expansion of a developing Third World War. This is absolutley critical!! War with Iraq will look like a small skirmish. Most Americans have no clue of the sacrifies that will be demanded of them. That's why Iraq is so important to our military strategy.
So -- I'm interested in hearing comments from military intelligence and counter-insurgency experts? Is this picture painted by my friends accurate or exaggerated?
Yes, I think it's safe to say, we're ready and we've been ready for at least 20 years.
sorry, not an expert in anything but hunches.
Tehran
Some hawks peddle the asinine theory that a war with Iran could be won by air power alone. Never mind the fact that we have never, EVER done so.
You know... the reality is that about half a dozen of those spread out in the middle east would change a lot of peoples minds. Terrorist shoots down an american plane. We nuke a city. Terrorist shoots down another american plane... we nuke another city. Personally.... I think we win that war.
What the enemy wants, or doesn't want, is irrelevant to our decision to attack them. What is relevant is the threat they pose, and the best means for countering that threat. So far, no administration, from Carter onward, has taken any direct steps against Iran, even though Iran has and continues to engage in indirect warfare with us. It is a curious thing to observe. But not being privy to such state secrets, I can only hope they have good reasons for the approach taken.
Those reasons will melt like ice in the sun when the first Iranian nuclear weapon detonates. Especially if it detonates on non-Iranian soil.
Of course we’re ready. Nukes will be justified in these scenarios, and that will end it quicker than you can say Imanutjob.
That would alienate most of the rest of the world against us.
We didn’t have to invade and occupy Japan.
You mean more than they are already alienated against us?
Except for the reality that we would not react in such a manner. Nuking cities is a certain way to lose the moral war.
The civilian populace is plugged in to The Simpsons.
Bullsnot. We're **still** in Okinawa.
We’re in Okinawa under different circumstances than we’re in Iraq. Don’t you think?
The Japanese leaders were not Islamic madmen.
I just came in from outside chores and the first thing I saw is “Putin to visit Iran on Oct 16”. Not sure if it is a rumor or an actual news release.
Yes. Right now, Europe and Asia give little more than pro forma objections without any teeth. If we killed civilians in retaliation for an attack (in violation of Geneva, incidentally!), Europe and Asia would unite against us in war.
They had suicide bombers in world war II as well. We’ll never win this war if we’re afraid to win it because we might make somebody mad at us.
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