Posted on 11/26/2013 7:23:47 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Buchanan obviously is not a fan of Netanyahu's two decades of telling the world that Iran is on the verge of getting the bomb.
LOL. I never thought of it that way.
Israel stopped Iraq, they stopped Syria. What’s stopping them from stopping Iran?
They don’t have the political will to do it, so I guess that means they want the U.S. to have the political will to do it.
I'm no expert on Israeli politics. My guess is that Israel does have the will to attack Iran. But they are hesitating because they know that they no longer have any support from the USA.
It's tough to go it alone when no major power will stand with you.
Ugh. Sorry for the all-italics post to you, Alberta’s Child.
Israel doesn't have the political will because they recognize that the direct threat from Iran is very much exaggerated. As Colonel Kangaroo suggested earlier, it's kind of hard to maintain credibility when you spend two decades yelling that Iran is "just about to develop a nuclear weapon."
Nice to see that other FReepers have noticed this. Of course, we are all Neville Chamberlains! /sarc ;)
Why would Iran be the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world? Why would Iran provide arms and IEDs to kill US troops in Iraq? Why would Iran blow up Kobar Towers in Saudi Arabia?
Pat is all wet on this one. He doesn't understand the Iranian mentality. He thinks the Iranian leadership is rational. These are the same people who sent their children walking thru minefields during the Iran-Iraq war.
Islam, in its more rabid manifestations. Relatively few Muslims really believe the Koran from cover to cover — thankfully.
The 12th imam. Death and destruction, in their world, means their “savior” comes sooner and everything becomes heaven on earth for them.
The big shot opinion makers in Washington love the Neville Chamberlain analogy. They seem to all fancy themselves as Winston Churchill. But Churchill was a soldier from his youth who even served in the front lines when he lost his cabinet position in World War I while most of today’s prominent warhawks have avoided military service like the plague
They’re a mean and vicious bunch as the war with Iraq showed. But even in Khomeini’s day they were rational enough to call off the fight when Saddam Hussein gained the upper hand.
I lived a total of nine years in three Muslim countries and traveled to many more. You are wrong. Islam is a very demanding religion that requires a great deal of personal involvement. And it permeates every facet of their daily lives. There is no separation between the state and religion.
To be deep into that religion doesn’t mean the same thing as literally embracing all that’s in the Koran. Embracing all of it WILL result in rabid Muslims. Please do not equate the two states of affairs.
Saddam never really gained the upper hand. It was a stalemate with the end brokered by the UN. The IranIraq War, lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. The IranIraq War began when Iraq invaded Iran via air and land on 22 September 1980.
Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of Iran's revolutionary chaos and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and were quickly repelled; Iran regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982. For the next six years, Iran was on the offensive.
Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988. The war finally ended with Resolution 598, a U.N.-brokered ceasefire which was accepted by both sides. At the war's conclusion, it took several weeks for Iranian armed forces to evacuate Iraqi territory to honour pre-war international borders set by the 1975 Algiers Agreement. The last prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003
Most do embrace all that is in the Koran. It doesn't make them "rabid." You are the one who is confused.
(And analogous situations exist in, e.g., Christianity. Consider how Catholics and fundamentalist Christians differ, for instance. One can be a very devout Catholic and still be getting essentially all your bible through whatever the clerical culture at hand is. You won’t be literally embracing it cover to cover like we crazy fundies do.)
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