Posted on 04/05/2007 5:05:23 AM PDT by kellynla
It's probably a good rule to do the opposite of anything the Iranian theocracy wants. Apparently, this government is now doing its darnedest to be bombed. So, for the time being, we should not grant them this wish.
In the last three years, the ranting adolescent theocrats in Tehran have alienated the United Nations' Security Council to the point of earning trade sanctions. That's a hard thing to do, given the U.N.'s bias toward the former third world and the way China and Russia value petroleum and trade above all else.
Prior to capturing last month 15 British Navy personnel, Iran had for years misled and embarrassed Britain, Germany and France, who all tried to negotiate a peaceful end to Iranian nuclear proliferation. And as a rule, these are European nations that will suffer almost any indignity to talk a problem away.
It is also nearly impossible to offend the Russian government on any matter of law - except squelching on debts. Still, Iran even accomplished that. Moscow is withdrawing from the country its nuclear technicians, who are critical to Tehran's efforts to obtain the bomb.
There is no need to mention Israel, which top Iranians have promised to wipe off the map - despite the fact that Israel is a nuclear power with a long record of military prowess. The Iranian leadership's efforts to promote a radical Persian Shiite Islam have terrified nearby Sunni Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf monarchies that now detest Iran as much as they do Israel.
Our beef with Iran, of course, goes back well before George W. Bush's presidency. "The Great Satan" as a slur for America was coined when Jimmy Carter was president. In 1979, student gangsters stormed the American embassy in Tehran and took hostages.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
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I do believe the term is "welshing" on a debt. But that might offend the Welsh.
Let me know if you want in or out.
Links: FR Index of his articles: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
His website: http://victorhanson.com/
NRO archive: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp
Pajamasmedia: http://victordavishanson.pajamasmedia.com/
I’m sure Mr. Hanson knows the correct term. I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts some 20-something PC editor changed it, either because he’d never heard “to welch” or he thought it was insulting to the Welsh.
Yet the Russians now the Kuwaitis say we are going to attack Iran this month. Hmmmmmm?
Sooner or later, we are going to have to give the Muslims the jihad they so desperately want.
The problem is way to many people here assume that Salafists/ Wahabisists/ Khumeinists represent the mainstream of Islamic thought, and action.
Victor Davis Hanson has no credibility. He is a starry-eyed Wilsonian who helped lead us down the garden path into the Iraq mess. Now, he wants to do it again!!
Or perhaps, the Iranians knew we wouldn't oblige them, so they are provoking us to prevent us from attacking them! Hmmm....
I would add mindless idiot. But I don't think he wants to do it again. This article is about why we shouldn't attack Iran, couched in the language of muscular democratic interventionism that is Hanson's shtick.
Basically, the guy wants to show how tough he still is, but at some level realizes that a war with Iran would be a catastrophe.
“Victor Davis Hanson has no credibility. He is a starry-eyed Wilsonian who helped lead us down the garden path into the Iraq mess.”
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
I’m sure GWB didn’t ask Hanson his advice on whether to invade Iraq. LMAO
Saddass Hussein was trash just like Hitler & Stalin who needed to be taken out.
And I only wish we had used my fellow Marine Corps Snipers to do so.
Eliminating these dictators is not worth more than the price of a 7.62.
Amen.
Saddam was a low-rent Mussolini. The world is full of them. If you try to "take out" all of them, the taxpayers will be bankrupt. Please note that new "fundamentalist" trash like Malki and Al-Hakim are now in charge. Do you also plan to "take them out?"
You’re right. He actually takes the right position on this, sort of.
“If you try to “take out” all of them, the taxpayers will be bankrupt.”
Exactly why I said that I wish we would use my fellow Marine Corps Snipers because all of these bad actors aren’t worth more than the cost of a 7.62...
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