Posted on 09/25/2007 7:15:02 AM PDT by Thorin
To the hysteriacs, Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler and we are all at Munich – and we should behave like Churchill and gird for war.
This is absurd.
Hitler could destroy the Jewish population of Europe because he was able to conquer Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals. Iran has no air force or navy we could not dispatch in a week and no nukes. Israel has 200 to 300 nuclear warheads and, if it believed its survival was at stake, could turn Tehran into toast in 10 minutes.
America and Iran have great differences, but also common interests. Among the latter, no Taliban in Kabul, no restoration of a Sunni Baathist dictatorship in Baghdad and support for the present governments. Iran cannot want a Sunni-Shia war in the region, which would make her an enemy of most Arabs, and she cannot want a major war with America, which could lead to the destruction and breakup of the nation where only half the people are Persians.
That is plenty to build a cold peace on, if the hysteriacs do not stampede us into another unnecessary war.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
200 to 300 nukes ?
Pat nailed it...
but I’m gettin the popcorn ready for this thread
Iran is sending weapons and personnel into IRaq who are killing our soldiers. don’t let people with an agenda keep this fact out of the discourse. they’re diverting us.
Iran is sponsoring people who are killing our people. and Columbia bestows legitimacy upon their leader?
AND the state and federal governments are subsidizing Columbia??????
Pass the popcorn...
As Buchanan points out in the rest of the column, both the USSR and China were sending in weapons to kill our soldiers in Vietnam, yet we continued to talk to them.
Besides, I'd like to see the proof Iran is doing this. I hope it's a lot better than the "proof" that Saddam had WMDs.
he knows he wouldn't be safe there....
Caliphate on camels and rugs has been highly overrated as a danger to the world. Time to get real.
‘Buchanan nails it. Iran is a Third World backwater, not a grave threat to the United States.’
Be sure to tell that to the parents of dead US soldiers, courtesy of Iran manufactured IED’s.
in you rvietnam scenario, you fail to mention that we didn’t bring their leaders over here to forward their agendas to our colleges.
as for proff, we have one of their officers in custody who was caught red handed smugglign weapons. General Patreaus mentioned the Iranian connection in his report to congress.
what more proof do you need?
An American boy in a flag draped box did it for me
Pat Buchanan, as always is only half right.
This is the kind of thinking that has allowed Iran to wage a more-or-less covert terror war against us for the last 28 years with virtual impunity.
Calling Mr. Iwannajihad ‘Hitler’ isn’t ‘girding for war’. It’s a statement that the little Iranian is just as mean nasty, anti-Semitic, and doctrinaire as the original. He believes he and his kind (Islamists) are the superiors, and everyone else should kowtow to them. It has nothing to do with how many plane, trains, or automobiles the man has, though clearly, he can do a lot more damage with his nukes than Adolph ever dreamed.
Buchanan misses nail... creams thumb.
Those who pushed for war against Iraq certainly didn't tell us our boys would be coming home in body bags four years later. These are the same people pushing for war against Iran. We should consider how well their prior predictions worked out in evaluating what they are now telling us about Iran.
Buchanan is an idiot. The jihadis who smashed the WTC were all from 3rd world backwater nations too. It does not pay to ignore these threats. If billybob klintoon had taken appropriate action in the 1990’s when the threat first surfaced, a lot of later tragedy could have been averted.
The bulk of the world’s oil comes from that part of the world. The USA is dependent on the free flow of oil out of the ME. It can not allow any national to dominate that region.
Iran is building up it military forces and seeking nukes so that it can dominate that region. Once it gets nukes can simply bully their neighbor oil rich region into following it’s lead on oil policy. If we followed Pat’s infantile Isolationist dogms, the USA be seen by the local powers as an unreliable ally would could be counted on to run away the minute the Iranians rattled their sabers.
Following the “Let’s hide under the bed and hope the bad men go away” dogma of the Neo-Isolationist Buchannittes would make war with Iran MORE likely at a later date at a much great cost to the USA
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