Posted on 06/26/2007 5:43:33 PM PDT by Anti-Hillary
Sanctions and diplomacy have failed and it may be too late for internal opposition to oust the Islamist regime, leaving only military intervention to stop Iran's drive to nuclear weapons, the US's former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
Worse still, according to Ambassador Bolton, the Bush administration does not recognize the urgency of the hour and that the options are now limited to only the possibility of regime change from within or a last-resort military intervention, and it is still clinging to the dangerous and misguided belief that sanctions can be effective.
As a consequence, Bolton said he was "very worried" about the well-being of Israel. If he were in Israel's predicament, he said, "I'd be pushing the US very hard. I am pushing the US [administration] very hard, from the outside, in Washington."
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Nah... not hardly. They... the middle east group don’t have a clue if they are pitching of catching. God love them. Simply call... teminex.
and let’s get on with what’s worth getting with.
If we do attack Iran, it must be an activity of three parts.
The first is an air war to destroy their nuclear infrastructure. But that is a temporary measure, as they are correct in assuming that they can (and have the will) to rebuild it.
So it must be accompanied by the partitioning of Iran, to deny it the oil revenues it would need to rebuild its nuclear weapons program. This would amount to a minimum of slicing off Iranian Kurdistan and Iranian Arabic Khuzestan, which has most of its oil wealth. This would also have the added bonus of denying Iran easy access to the Persian Gulf, so they could no longer easily menace the world’s oil supply.
In turn, these minimum partitioned regions would require that we reduce the Iranian military and Revolutionary Guard, so that they could not attempt to recapture the lands occupied respectively by the Kurdish Peshmurga army and the Iraqi Army.
Fortunately, almost all of the peoples in these lands would be more than glad to join with the adjacent peoples, with whom they have far more in common than Persians, who treat them as despised minorities and steal their wealth.
By not attacking, or only minimally attacking Persia proper, especially only military targets in Tehran, it might be possible to avoid inflaming the majority of Persians, who would be far less inclined to be slaughtered to defend the hated and corrupt Mullahs that rule over them. Especially considering how their lives were squandered in the Iran-Iraq War.
So the destruction of their nuclear infrastructure and armed forces can mostly be done by air, with a rapid movement of two or three of our ground divisions currently in Iraq to slice off Kurdistan and Khuzestan, followed by the Kurdish Peshmurga and Iraqi Army.
Other variants to the scheme might include the annexation of Iranian Baluchistan in the southeast by the Pakistani Army, which would further deny Iran the rich mineral wealth of that region; and to utterly destroy and use denial weapons on the Iranian uranium mines in their Azeri territories.
But it is vital that we do not just destroy what of their nuclear infrastructure we can, or else in a decade, just like with Iraq, we will have to invade and conquer the whole of Iran, at much higher cost in lives and treasure.
absolutely on tag line
Considering my advanced age, it may not be enough time before I am too old and feeble to do anything but teach the younguns how to grow edibles, can, etc
You can read this exact same doom and gloom outlooks from every older generation since the 20's.....Novels, diaries, old newspapers, etc....all have the same doom and gloom tone from time to time....
This is not good news. Bolton has never been a drama queen and is usually correct in his assessments. GW and crew effed up big time on this one.
Mr. Bush doesnt have the time to deal with Iran now. He is too busy giving the country to the Mexicans.
Bush is starting to make Lyndon Johnson look like a decent war time President.
Condi Rice is just as weak and misguided as McNamara was.
If they botch this Iran situation, they will be haunted by it forever.
“They”, will?
Use your moniker in moving your vote.
We all will. correct that. We will. Here we are approaching a CRITICAL MOMENT in the war on terror and our president is too morally and politically weak to actully tell it as it is and prepare the American people for a huge battle.
Was he that happy with pee ing away our majority ? Now he wants to pee away the Presidency to Hillary and pee away the middle east and the world be held under nuclear hostage by the jihadists ?
In the twenties and thirties they would have been exactly right on the money.
Don’t feel like a fool. Look to your own screen name. You never had a choice. It was the Power (Masons, Skull&Bones, CFR, Buildaburgers) that pumped Ge-orge Doubleyou Bush up to the gills with money and then made shure he won. Twicet.
Considering my advanced age, it may not be enough time before I am too old and feeble to do anything but teach the younguns how to grow edibles, can, etc.
I get your drift. The wife and I were talking about this today.
We need to send in airborn or special forces to take out some of the targets, which are hardened, but should probably be out of most of Iran in a month or so.
We need to take out all the nuclear sites. We also need to take out the leadership and the Revolutionary Guard, to give the decent Iranians some chance of staging a revolution against the Mullahs.
Partition? Maybe so. But it could be dangerous, because that would mean that the Sunni Arabs controlled even more oil than they already do. The other solution is to prepare the way for regime change by taking out the forces that are keeping the mullahs in power.
What freaks me out about this is that John Bolton is not some loon predicting armageddon is near and trying to start a cult.
John Bolton is a very smart and respectable man. He is somebody people should respectfully listen too, even if they dont like what he has to say.
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