"Right-wing B.S! Not *just* in the Middle East! Oh, wait..."
Posted on 09/28/2009 6:12:42 PM PDT by howard roark209
In Western Europe, they have a strategic culture which views military action as something anachronistic, a thing of the past," Inbar says. "Maybe [the] Obama administration has changed somewhat its tone, but I must say that in the Middle East, Obama is still viewed as very weak — very good at words but not very good at deeds — and I don't think that another Obama speech will impress very much the Iranian elite."
Some analysts say Israel on its own doesn't have the capacity to carry out a sustained military campaign against Iran's facilities. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said over the weekend that military action would do no more than "buy some time" before Iran acquires nuclear weapo
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Actual title is “Israel Pushes Harder Line On Iran Nuclear Ambitions” by Peter Kenyon.
Well it’s not too hard to see the obvious, now is it? He is weak. However, in all fairness, Bush didn’t seem to willing to go to the mat against Iran in support of our ally. Is Iran that crafty that they can confound everyone, or is everyone lacking resolve?
They don’t have a nuke yet. I think you will see action once it is known that they actually have one.
Yea, great strategy, sort of like taking action against a pit bull after he's locked his teeth into your throat. A nuclear armed Iran equals the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews. It will be too late to act after they have one because a true madman, (Ahmadinejad), thinking he is God's agent in end-times religious prophecy, doesn't care about reprisals. In fact, he looks forward to it.
Human nature. we wait til the last minute.
WE drug our feet on hitler too, remember?
Zero is a totally gutless bastard except in his zeal to prosecute American citizens—for example the CIA.
A friend, AF Captain Paul Needham, who had the misfortune to be in Iran when Ahmadinejad and his fellow rabble took over the US Embassy in 1979 and spent 444 days in captivity, said upon his return that the US should load about 50 B52s with nukes and turn Iran into a glass parking lot. It would have solved lots of problems.
"Right-wing B.S! Not *just* in the Middle East! Oh, wait..."
The “Bush Doctrine” was the pre-emptive strike. We don’t have to absorb the first blow, when we know its coming, before striking back. The Dum’s wholesale rejection of all that’s Bush will make us sit and wait for Pearl Harbor again.
Then, wrapped in the mantle of righteous defense, emergency suspension of all manner of rights including, I suspect, elections.
We had a pearl harbor. 9-11, remember? Now that’s all receded back into the background and it will take a third pearl harbor to wake us up again.
That’s life folks. Humans really aren’t all that smart most of the time. Just once in awhile when it’s absolutely necessary.
Is there anylace in the world where the socialist is NOT viewed as weak?
0bama is good at lies, nothing else.
Canada?
Kenya.
As Rush said today, “he is only good at making speeches”. Not sure I even agree with that as I cannot bear to listen to him anymore - not that I ever could!
‘Israel: Obama Viewed as weak in the Middle East.’
Here’s some news, fellas; he’s viewed as weak everywhere - especially between the ears.
What a coincidence! He's viewed as weak here, too...
Bush probably would have been willing to take on Iran, if he would have had a chance earlier on, before the Giant Left Wing media/DemonRat conspiracy drove down the poll numbers for the Iraq war.
All Obama will do in response is powder her nose a little more vigorously, maybe think about hitting someone with her handbag, possibly make a visit to her fainting couch.
Bush's ability to 'go to the mat against Iran' effectively disappeared when he chose to put the Shiites in control of the Iraqi govt (foregone conclusion when we attacked Iraq, and the reason that GHWB & the coalition didn't take it that far in the 1st Gulf War.
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