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To: Atlantic Bridge

So just hope that the alligator eats you last? Nice that Germany has helped Israel. But this Iranian situation (and maybe the Pakis) cannot be "talked" to a resolution, do you think? Seems to me the talking is over....


44 posted on 05/14/2006 11:05:24 PM PDT by cfrels
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To: cfrels
I must admit that the pressure on Iran has to be strengthened. On the other hands the millitary possibilities of the west are quite limited. Small "surgical" airstrikes will not solve the problem since their nuclear program is too big and the roundabout 750.000 "boots on the ground" to deal with the Iranian army fast, are simply not available. Up to this point no western nation is able to accept the losses in ten- or hundertthousand soldiers that such a war would trigger. Besides of this the Iranians are able to close the street of Hormuz which would end in a disaster for all economies in the western world.

We have to be careful not to endanger our own position without loosing the grip to this problem. There will be no easy solution. Therefore it is not wrong to gain time through negotiations.

45 posted on 05/14/2006 11:25:46 PM PDT by Atlantic Bridge (De omnibus dubitandum.)
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