Let's Give Iran Some Of Its Own Medicine (Mark Steyn)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-17-2006 | Mark Steyn

[voletti]

I believe it was Andrei Gromyko who remarked that, if the students had pulled the same stunt at the Soviet embassy, Teheran would have been a crater by lunchtime. 'Nuff said. That buffoon Carter did lasting damage.

[lemura]

Hitler could have been stopped cold in 1936 when the Nazis reoccupied the Rhineland. That mistake will not be repeated - the Iranians will never have nukes under the current theocratic government.

[Peach]

Stupid of Straw to let the mullahs know that no military action is being calculated.

[Zechariah11]

What a mess! I understand that the USA is taking the go-easy line of the German. ("There's no need to talk about sanctions yet!")

Time is not on our side. It's on the side of Iran.

[TheDon]

The Carter legacy lives on.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Hitler could have been stopped cold in 1936 when the Nazis reoccupied the Rhineland. That mistake will not be repeated - the Iranians will never have nukes under the current theocratic government.

I sure as hell hope you're right.

[A.A. Cunningham]

If you believe that Straw was being honest I have a bridge to sell you.

[A.Hun]

Why not tap into their excess energy right now? As the foreign terrorists have demonstrated in Iraq, you don't need a lot of local support to give the impression (at least to Tariq Ali and John Pilger) of a popular insurgency. Would it not be feasible to turn the tables and upgrade Iran's somewhat lethargic dissidents into something a little livelier? A Teheran preoccupied by internal suppression will find it harder to pull off its pretensions to regional superpower status.

Most coherent plan of attack yet....go Steyn!

[Peach]

Why bother saying anything about military plans at all?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Iranians have been disarmed. The Mullahs control the Army.

[Gerfang]

It would be a lot easier to put pressure on Iran if not for the current situation in Iraq.

[oldenuff2no]

Lets show them how a Neutron Bomb works. Which of their cities should we start with?

[FreedomPoster]

Ping.

[JoeSixPack1]

Why not tap into their excess energy right now?

Because every single time we do, it comes back to bite us in the butt!

[Travis McGee]

If the CIA hadn't been tramsformed into a bunch of cell phone chatting Valerie Plames, they would have been shipping sterile weapons to the Iranian students and others years ago.

[zarf]

It would be a lot easier to put pressure on Iran if not for the current situation in Iraq.

If you believe this then I have bridge to sell you.

The same suspects would be bitching, stalling and in the end blaming President Bush for being a warmonger.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I think the world of terrorist need to know our power.

A dozen missles from subs should get the worlds attetion.

We have pussy footed around for too long, send the Rangers and Marines to secure the oil fields. Give warnings to Teharn, then level everything.Make a huge mirror to counteract global warming.

[voletti]

Word around is that Iran's nuke program is dangerously amateurish and unsafe.... you never know when a nuke might accidentally go off, eh?.....

But if its bombings the US is envisaging, then bunkerbusters with 2 hour timers need to be shot right into all the 100 odd underground possible sites with loud warnings to all civilians to clear the area, you have 2 hours....

[decal]

"To neutralise them all would require a sustained bombing campaign lasting several weeks, and with the usual collateral damage at schools, hospitals, etc, plastered all over CNN and the BBC..."

If Iran ever uses The Bomb against Israel, this will happen on the morning of the first day, and nobody worthwhile will care.

Threatening the mullahs is useless; threaten Mohammed Six-Pack with this knowledge instead.