Posted on 09/27/2009 10:56:34 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Madame President.
PING!
Nope. They need nukes as insurance and blackmail. With nukes they try to raise the price of oil, get control of the entire region and wage a non-nuclear war against Israel via Hezbullah and Hamas missiles. Israel's deterrence of nukes will be made up with with their nukes. And most importantly the mullah regime will have an insurance against any attempt to topple the regime or destabilize it.
Their goal is making the "islamic republic" dominant and unassailable in the region.
Their apocalyptic rethoric is bluster and propaganda. They are evil, not suicidal. If they launch a nuke "once they get it", it will be retributed by Israel and the West at once. Ahmadinejad may be a nutty apokalyptical crazy, but he is not calling the shots.
Disagree. Fanatics are not predictable.
You are wrong. This is why Iran is so dangerous and why secular Westerners can't see the danger.
To many people in the West, that whole religion thing is just... nonsense, and no one really, I mean REALLY, believes in it. So they must be using it as a means of propaganda. And since they don't really believe in their religion, it's not dangerous.
But consider if they do. How dangerous is even one nuclear bomb in the hands of a group that beleive that if they destroy Tel Aviv then their god will send his angels to help them wipe out the rest of their enemies once and for all and establish them as the rulers of the world?
All things happen for a reason, they say. We would be so much better off right now if Sarah Palin was in the White House, but like with obama, she wouldn't be ready nor would the country be ready for her, a potentially Reagan-esque conservative savior.
Sad to say it, but the country first needs real pain to understand and only statist demonrats and their rino brethren can teach us what real pain looks and feels like. Just like after four years of Carter, we'll be more than ready for common sense by 2012.
Go Sarah!! I hope she wasn't too tainted by running with McCain, but she is showing that she is NOT like McCain.
It isn’t weakness of our President that puts us at such risk, it is the fact that he doesn’t have America’s best interests at heart.
Say whatever you will about Palin’s inexperience, or even call her naive, but you can never call her un-American. Obama is.
Iran is the first nuclear nation who believes, with all of their collective heart, that they are destined to wipe another country off of the face of the Earth.
Not simply to defeat, but to annihilate.
If that difference doesn’t strike home, I suppose one must not be paying attention.
Mao was not a religious fanatic who believed he could bring forth a promised "12th Imam" by causing as much mayhem as possible. Mao also did not have a foreign enemy whom he was willing to sacrifice his own country to defeat.
That's why MAD worked against communists: they were materialists who valued their own hind-ends above all else.
The "Twelver Shias" who run Iran are not; they're motivated by a 6th century cultic religion that teaches them to die for their god.
Imagine Imperial Japan with nuclear missiles and you're getting closer to what we're facing in Iran.
There is going to be such a war...
She finishes with a statement from her essence, speaking of when America comes roaring back to life, and "why shouldn't we; we're Americans".
It is that unshakable optimism and heartfelt belief in American Exceptionalism that sets her apart from other wouldbe "leaders". It's an inate quality that hasn't been expressed so unequivically since Ronald Reagan first came on the scene.
A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, an 'Obama' cap and a 'Save the Trees' t-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically and thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10-foot grizzly.
As the Pope watched in horror, a group of Republican loggers with 'Go Sarah' t-Shirts came racing up. One quickly fired a .44 magnum into the bear's chest. The other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the bear's grasp. Then using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it onto the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.
As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. 'I give you my blessing for your brave actions!' he told them. 'I have heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic environmental activists, but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true.'
As the Pope drove off, one logger asked his buddies, 'Who was that guy?'
'It was the Pope,' another replied. 'He's in direct contact with Heaven and has access to all wisdom.'
'Well,' the logger said, 'he may have access to all wisdom, but he doesn't know squat about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive, or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and get another one?
Also on that visit the Pope fell from the Alaskan tour boat then had Sarah Palin dive into the frigid waters to pull him to safety from the jagged ice floes--
--only to have Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric bemoan her glaring inability to walk on water.
bttt
As President Obama fumbled badly at the UN and G-8 last week, Sarah Palin began redefining herself as presidential timber.
Thanks for the links. BTTT!
Yessir. Old Ronald Reagan, the first amiable dunce, had a way of explaining things.
On how to proceed in the Cold War, he said: "We win, they lose".
The current dunce in the White House doesn't even know what "Win" means.
I think the lady in high heels has more potential than anyone else on the horizon.
“We win, they lose”.
Ain’t that good?
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