[tet68]

“It will have to be diplomats, not F15s that stop the mullahs,” said Joseph Cirincione, an expert on non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “An air strike against the uranium conversion facility at Esfahan would inflame Muslim anger, rally the Iranian public around an otherwise unpopular government. Finally, the strike would not, as it often said, delay the Iranian programme. It would almost certainly speed it up,” he wrote in an article.


Diplomats have never stopped a war yet.
This guy wants us to do nothing least they speed up their
armament race? The same mentality that says we shouldn't
kill terrorists cause we are then creating more of them.

Idioten!

[Supernatural]

You are right, diplomacy stops nothing. It just gives the other side a chance to grow stronger and to strike when they think they are strong enough.

[BIGLOOK]

“It will have to be diplomats, not F15s that stop the mullahs,” said Joseph Cirincione

He might have a point but an F/A 18 could stop several mullahs dead.

[Ditto]

“It will have to be diplomats, not F15s B17's that stop the mullahs,” Nazis.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

From the article:

Iran has threatened to defend itself if attacked. It could use medium-range missiles to hit Israel or US military targets in Iraq and the region. It could also use its missiles and submarines to attack shipping in the Gulf, the main export route for much of the world’s energy needs. “Once you have dealt with the nuclear sites you would have to expand the targets,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Gardiner. “There are another 125 to deal with including chemical plants, missile launchers, airfields and submarines.”

Somebody needs to suggest to the LTC that we attack those targets first....

OR, if they want nuclear weapons, we send them one overnight with a Federal Express sticker on it!

[PhilDragoo]

MISSILE DEFENSE BRIEFING REPORT NO. 196
American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC
http://www.afpc.org
February 6, 2006

REFINING THE SHAHAB-3
Iran is gearing up for a military showdown with the West over its nuclear program. Citing Berlin's Die Welt newspaper, the Deutche Presse Agentur (February 3) reports that Western intelligence sources have determined that the Islamic Republic successfully carried out a secret long-range missile test last month. The January 17th trial, believed to be of the 2,000-kilometer Shahab-3, was designed to gather sensor data regarding aerodynamic performance. The Iranian regime is also making progress on the payload capabilities of its premier missile; according to Die Welt, intelligence officials now believe that the Shahab-3 is capable of delivering three nuclear warheads.

Interesting point by Rush today regarding the UN resolution, the UN referral to the Security Council, the UN written report--namely, how many dozens of these pathetically impotent acts will it take to demonstrate their futility?

Democrats continue in full fifth-column mode while Ahmadinejad prances back on forth on the back of the sofa wearing his Kiss Me I'm The Mahdi button.

We don't need al Baradei who makes Mr. Magoo appear to have 20-20 vision--we need ordnance on target--and one of those targets needs to be painted on that horse's ass Mamoud Ahmadinejad.

Now is the time for George Patton getting the other fellow to die for his cause--not for Neville Chamberlain waving a UN resolution in his lofty aristocratic fashion.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

"Diplomats have never stopped a war yet."

What the Carnegie peace guy is really saying is [in his worldview] it will be diplomats that stop Iran from making the bomb, or else we will just go ahead and let Iran make the bomb.

There is a huge amount of denial going on here. I still read news reports that define the issue as one of "dual use" technology, as though it remains it doubt whether Iran, if permitted the equipment to make the bomb, might actually do so.

There is a similar fantastic belief amoung peaceniks that if we merely get diplomats with sufficient skill, understanding and empathy, a peaceful solution can be worked out, and the only reason for failure would be that our diplomats are inferior to the task. This belief has the added bonus that when diplomacy fails, it will be "our fault".

Iran's statements over the past few weeks have made it crystal clear that, aside from the notion of national sovereignity, which Iran claims as a basis for everything it is doing, Iran cares nothing for international law, international opinion, or any norms of civilized behavior.