Posted on 10/19/2023 5:52:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Iranians have little clue they are one stupid missile volley, or one reckless intervention away from a devastating Western response.
Iran understandably believes it is riding quite high.
It is flush with cash. It hints it almost has the bomb—and might use it soon.
The Iranians are bragging about their new tyrannical allies like Russia and China.
Iran boasts of now being the self-proclaimed leader of jihad on behalf of all Muslims. It gloats that it is feeding the Russian war-machine by exporting its own drones.
Tehran proudly supplied and funded Hamas’s savage murdering of Jewish children in Israel.
It eggs on its other pawn Hezbollah to launch a reputed 100,000-Iranian-supplied missiles into Israel.
It constantly provokes the U.S.—mostly by veiled threats to unleash anti-American terrorists in the Middle East and perhaps inside America itself.
But above all, Iran is giddy over the appeasing Biden administration.
Biden resurrected the unhinged Obama administration plan of empowering a “Shiite crescent”—of Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, including Hamas.
This American idea of a radical bloc would supposedly birth “creative tension” and thus on autopilot balance the dominance of our friends in Israel and the Gulf regimes with our new Iranian clients. Yet the logical result of such madness was the massacre we saw in Israel.
Biden put pro-Iranian envoy Robert Malley—now under FBI investigation—in charge of begging Iran to restart the disastrous Iran Deal.
The anemic Biden administration has reportedly replied only four times to some 83 Iranian attacks on Americans.
Biden lifted sanctions allowing Iran to garner tens of billions of dollars in new oil sales—to be routed to all of Israel’s terrorist enemies.
He sought to pay ransom to Iran to get back five American hostages—at a cost of $1.2 billion per captive and a green-light for Tehran to take more.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Just 15 minutes or so flight time away from Kuwait and perhaps half an hour from Saudi Arabia
They most likely already have the bomb.
They’re just working on miniaturizing it, for a suitable missile delivery system.
China cares only about the delivery of Middle East oil, calm seas lanes—and injuring the U.S.
Otherwise Beijing has no desire to risk its economy by pushing an Iranian theater war—especially when China has jailed a million Uyghur Muslims in forced labor camps.
Dr Hanson nails it with this essay - if only we has a president and administration that didn't love Iran more than they love the USA.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Has anyone noticed that VDH seems to be all over the media these days. Normally we would get something from him about every two weeks now its several times a day.
I think its great.
With what army? These countries combined military's would not have a chance against Iran.
Sorry, but this is a lot of wishful thinking on the part of Hanson. I don’t see the political will in the US to engage in more major conflicts around the globe.
USA military forces were deployed to the region to prevent Israel from attacking Iran.
Israel will NEVER allow Iran to get an atomic weapon. If that happens I suspect an EMP device over Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria would be the first order of business.
Then the wrath of God, end of the world for the muzzies will take place..... and the world will be better off.
Iran’s biggest vulnerability is, of all things, its water dams. Iran has 523 major dams, the larger of which provide essential hydroelectric power. Destroying just 4 or 5 could knock out power and water to their cities, and pretty well wipe out their agriculture.
The absolute worst fiasco of the Carter Administration was deposing the Shah.
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No doubt about it. And what’s so frustrating is how obvious of a mistake it was — just a total failure of basic judgement in decision making.
Air Forces will do the job
There will be no land invasion of Iran
“Never get involved in a land war in Asia”
I don’t think the 0bama crew would let Biden attack Iran anyway.
Or a fireball from heaven.
Our record in democratizing Middle Eastern countries is not the great. Neither is our record in getting out of our military engagements over there. The government has been the boy who cried “Wolf!” too often to get man people to go along with it.
It is more like a Novelette and can be read in one sitting.
I think VDH has misjudged how incompetent our leadership is in Washington at all levels including the military. Reagan or Trump isn’t president and we have the likes of a Milley in charge, paper pushing woke idiots.
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