US 'must live with nuclear Tehran'

The Australian ^ | 10/2/06 | Sarah Baxter

[progressoverpeace]

AMERICA will have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran, top US intelligence analysts have concluded at a secret meeting. Senior operatives and analysts from the intelligence community were almost unanimous in their view that little could be done to stop Iran acquiring the components for a nuclear bomb.

[progressoverpeace]

The "collateral damage" to civilians could be considerable, sources say.

The fact that "collateral damage" would even be considered is the reason why we might actually lose this war.

We need to step away from all of this 4th Geneva Convention nonsense and return to the correct rules of engagement. Allied tactics in WWII laid down the correct rules of engagement for a civilized and decent nation fighting a just war against barbarous enemies.

[RightWhale]

Since Iran has had the nuke for a decade, this won't be much of a tectonic shift.

[CWOJackson]

"...top US intelligence analysts have concluded at a secret meeting."

Following which they held a press conference and a Q&A.

[Jaysun]

The fact that "collateral damage" would even be considered is the reason why we might actually lose this war.

We need to step away from all of this 4th Geneva Convention nonsense and return to the correct rules of engagement. Allied tactics in WWII laid down the correct rules of engagement for a civilized and decent nation fighting a just war against barbarous enemies.

Amen.

[danneskjold]

US 'must live with nuclear Tehran'

I believe those are mutually exclusive...

[progressoverpeace]

Good point.

[msnimje]

Not if Israel has anything to say about it.

[wagglebee]

We can "live with" a "nuclear Tehran" the same way with lived with an "atomic Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

[Mr. Mojo]

Living with a nuclear Pakistan is bad enough. (They ominously named their first nuke "The Islamic Bomb").

Living with a nuclear Iran is impossible.

Hopefully Israel sees it that way as well and takes care of business.

[Danae]

Ummm... No we don't.

[b4its2late]

AMERICA will have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran, top US intelligence analysts have concluded at a secret meeting.

[txhurl]

As a freeper said long ago, it's not that the US has any serious problems with Iran having nukes, it's with the *Mullahcracy* having nukes.

[100-Fold_Return]

wardrums a-beatin' and a-beatin'...

[I see my hands]

If the disease can't be cured then the host must die.

[CDHart]

They didn't do too well against Hezbollah. Have they lost their "never again" attitude?

Carolyn

[expatguy]

Unfortunately it is too late now

[samtheman]

We won't lose the war. We definitely won't lose the war. But because of a huge segment of our population who are unable to see the threat, and who (with the help of traitors like McCain) have effectively won the debate, we will be fighting the war minus one or two (or more US cities). But at that point (and it is very, very sad that we will wait for it to get to that point), we will win the war.

There will be a lot of glass in the mideast. And no more Mecca. But it's too bad we will have to win it that way instead of the much cheaper way of a massive ground assault against Iran with a fully equipped and fully manned army, which we don't have, and, current PC-politics prevailing, we couldn't use even if we did have.

But we will win the war. I have no doubt about that.

[progressoverpeace]

Personally, I'm not sure if Israel is capable of handling it. Their pussy-footing in Lebanon didn't help anything.

Iran is going to have to be hit in a way that tens of thousands of Iranians are going to die, and I don't see any non-muslim nation that has the will to do that.

We have painted ourselves into a corner by being so outraged at terrorists for "killing civilians" when killing civilians is part of every war. We need to be outraged at terrorists for killing OUR civilians, and need to stress the point of killing their civilians in the course of the war.

Mutually Assured Destruction would not be able to be our stated policy these days, even though we held the threat of the total incineration of every man, woman, and child in the USSR up until 1991 without anyone arguing about the "morality" of killing their civilians.

Now, when we are fighting people who target our civilians, we have become paralyzed by the thought of killing any of their civilians.

Something has got to change, and soon.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"AMERICA will have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran, top US intelligence analysts have concluded at a secret meeting."

I'd rather live without top US intelligence analysts!

Lets see if the hidden eemammy glows in the dark after he crawls outta da well!

[progressoverpeace]

Yeah. I generally agree with your assessment (unfortunately), though the ultimate win is not a certainty. A win is likely, but not certain.