Posted on 01/16/2012 4:01:25 PM PST by Dysart
If it was that easy, it would have been done long ago.
It is that easy, but Iran hasnt elected to take this path for numerous reasons. Firstly, theyre not nearly the crazy nut-nicks they sound like. Anything involving the Iranian Navy (that Im aware of) has been handled by all applicable maritime laws and conventions. Its only the Revolutionary Guards who seem to be loose cannons. And, yes the Guards do have naval assets.
Further, Iran is a huge exporter and would be vulnerable to like retaliation. Its rather similar to poison gas use in WWII. There wasnt any. Both sides had it but the sword cut so broadly on both ends of the stroke they didnt use it.
Having said that, mines can be fabricated like big waterproof IEDs. Iran could use a front group to take the political hit. They havent and perhaps this is an arrow reserved for when the others have been shot. But a desperate regime will do anything.
The statement on insurance rates is accurate. Drive them up and the straights are closed whether there is a real reason or not.
“And play golf.
L.O.L.”
Double-dog LOL!
Zatso?
An eternity in that whorehouse-in-the-sky they call paradise with literal fountains of milk and honey, 72 female virgins and 28 tight-butted little boys-like-pearls to satisfy their every carnal desire?
That consequence?
The one you only get if you die in jihad. That one?
The real question is: Can they keep it closed?
Then the useless Obama hands them our top-secret stealth drone...
My ex used to fill in whole conversations with what she’d imagine I’d said...
The total destruction of their military capabilities is more what I had in mind.
One could argue it’s the same thing...
I think Obama is on their side.
even a fishing float with “Mine” scribbled on it would suffice. Underwriters will adjust rates as if a real one was
deployed.
Now, could we express the total time requirement for that...in minutes?
It really just depends on what tools we’d choose to use. The other thing is that there’d be a lot of countries wanting to contribute to the downfall of Shiite and Persian chauvinism. This would be the perfect opportunity to eliminate the mad mullahs, and despite the claptrap about the people uniting around the mullahs, the Iranians would be happy to see these fools eliminated.
they will make a lot of noise, but not actually do anything because they would be sunk immediately
the kenyan usurper would NOT even be involved in the decision, just like he was not involved in the killing of OBL (thank Leon Panetta)
Saudi and the Gulf guys can self-insure, as Iraq and Iran did back in the 80’s. The producers will occasionally have to swallow a loss out of their enormous income, but they are not going to be seriously constrained by a lack of insurance coverage.
Their profit margins on oil are too big to risk on the limitations of the low-margin insurance industry. A lost tanker or ten is nothing.
The problem would getting someone to give the orders.
Destroying Iranian forces based inland would take a great deal longer and would require a forward operating base on [former] Iranian territory held by US ground forces.
That would take more than just giving some orders. It would required unrestricted rules of engagement and exclusion of the press from the war zone. I doubt that we have political leaders capable of such actions. We would also need a lot more US forces in the area than we currently have available.
And of course the domestic support for another large-scale war is just about zero.
Many plans are made, few are executed. No plan survives contact with the enemy.
You know, the world is just filled with people like that.
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