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To: InterceptPoint
"Watch Iran. See what they do."

Nope. Watch the U.S.

Snap yourself out of the old way of thinking...where the U.S. pushed "diplomacy-only, diplomacy at all costs" options and let pipsqueak regional powers push us around in turn.

This is a new game. There is a new sheriff in town, and as long as George Bush is President, Iran and Syria aren't going to do squat.

Saddam Hussein's Iraq has already learned this lesson. The Taliban's Afghanistan has already learned this lesson. Charles Taylor's Liberia has already learned this lesson.

Syria demonstrated that they had learned this lesson last year when they heeded President Bush's demand for them to withdraw their Army from Lebanon.

Libya demonstrated that they has learned this lesson when they peacefully and voluntarily surrendered their massive WMD programs to President Bush in 2003/2004.

You too can learn this lesson.

Which is to say, watch the U.S., not pipsqueak regional nations.

Granted, in the past you had to watch what the regional powers did...but that was a leadership failure in Washington post cold-war.

That's no longer the case. If any other world leader wants to wind up in a jail cell next to Manuel Noriega of Panama or Saddam Hussein of Iraq, all that they have to do is act up while President Bush is in Office.

But since most world leaders are slightly more clever than Noriega, if they *do* plan on acting up, they'll at the very least wait for a new sheriff.

1,259 posted on 07/17/2006 11:31:39 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

We need to make John Bolton the new Sherrif in '08 somehow.


1,265 posted on 07/17/2006 11:35:49 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: Southack

Amen to that. Oh, and let's not leave out that Libyan dork, Gawdawfulli!


1,284 posted on 07/17/2006 11:48:04 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Southack
Nope. Watch the U.S.

Well yes and no.

The fact of the matter is that you don't get to see what the U.S. is doing. Take Libya for example. We saw nothing until we heard from Libya. Yes, the Bush Administration was working it hard and it was a major diplomatic victory for Bush, far exceeding anything that Clinton and Halfbright accomplished. But ... it is the reaction of the target that I look for. That you can see.

In the case of Iran - what do I expect? The answer is NOTHING. This little exercise with Hezebollah and Israel is a trial run of what they will see in spades if they don't reverse course. Right now all they can do is ramp things up in Iraq. They may do that but I don't know why they wouldn't be going max out already and I think they are. As to their friends Hezebollah they will offer up Syria for help. If Syria says NO as I fully expect them to then nothing happens. If Syria says yes, they had better get on with it because once Hezebollah is mopped up (weeks to a few months) they will be fighting alone. Bye-bye Syrian Air Force and Air Defense at the minimum.

1,466 posted on 07/17/2006 12:48:20 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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