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| Iran will be the problem from hell for the next president |
| 2008-09-29 |
| Iran is a problem from hell. The next US president, be it Barack Obama or John McCain, is going to have plenty to worry about: the Wall Street financial crisis, the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan's internal crisis, the relentless military build-up of China and the temptation it will soon have of trying to retake Taiwan militarily. But you can be sure of this. At some stage during the next presidency, Iran will blow up into a full-scale crisis that will dominate global politics and that may indeed be more important even than the other problems listed above. The new president will have one modestly useful extra resource, a bipartisan report commissioned by two former US senators and written primarily by Middle East expert Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute. The Weekend Australian has obtained a copy of the report, to be released later this week. Before I got the report, I had a long discussion with Rubin. Rubin is a Republican, but the report he wrote was the consensus work of a bipartisan taskforce that includes Dennis Ross, Obama's key Middle East adviser. The report is sobering and in some ways shocking reading. It begins baldly: "A nuclear weapons capable Islamic Republic of Iran is strategically untenable." It points to the disastrous consequences of an Iran with nuclear weapons: "Iran's nuclear development may pose the most significant strategic threat to the US during the next administration. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #4 NOT JUST NUCLEAR IRAN,ALBEIT 'TIS A BIGGIE/BENCHMARK, BUT ALSO NUCLEAR ISLAMISM-RADICALISM-MILITANCY-ANARCHISM-TERRORISM ......@! STATES + GROUPS-NETWORKS. As the broad "Third Arm/Branch" of GLOBAL MONOTHEISM, the Islamist Jihad will fail to validate nor stop the natural implosion of ISLAM = ISLAMISM [anti-Reform]WIDOUT NUCLEAR PARITY-SUPERIORITY VV NON-ISLAMIC WORLD + MIL POWERS. * "ATTACKING WHERE THE US = US-ALLIES/NATO-EU ARE NOT" > AS LONG AS THE POST-DUBYA USA LIMITS ITSELF = BULK OF INTERNATIONAL MILOPS + COMMITMENTS TO IRAQ + AFGHANISTAN, IRAN + ISLAMIST MILITANTS-TERRS + ALIGNED BELIEVE THEY WILL GET THEIR NUKES = SAVE + REJUVENATE THEIR JIHAD. E.g. POTUS OBAMA > WILL PAKISTAN ALLY + HISTORICALLY ANTI-WESTERN CHINA TOLERATE A US-ALLIED/NATO MILFOR PRESENCE IN PAKISTAN OR EVEN INDIA, ETC.??? MANY CHIN NETTERS > SUPPOR UNILATER CHIN MIL INTERVENTION IN PAKISTAN, ETC IFF THE US ATTACKS AND INVADES SAME! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-09-29 19:59 |
| #3 See also FREEREPUBLIC > IRAN'S NEW SPACE BOOSTER MAY HAVE ICBM CAPABILITY; + WND > NEW AL QAEDA THREAT: THERMOBARIC BOMBS [Crude, Off-the-Shelf, + has power of a small Nuke], + SAME > OP-ED > BIBLE PROPHECIES = ISRAEL ATTACKS DAMASCUS, RUSSIA INVADES. ME Events predicted or inferred by various differens Biblical Prophets appear to be occurring/manifesting, and in quick real-time "Ripple/Domino" fashion??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-09-29 19:42 |
| #2 obama will welcome them with open arms |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-09-29 11:43 |
| #1 I disagree. Because of the preparedness of George W. Bush, much of the worst of the Iranian threat has been, if not neutralized, then strongly ameliorated. He has done everything within his power to insure that our allies and our military have the best available defenses against Iranian missiles, and that the next Republican president will be fully able to decisively crush Iranian militarism and nuclear weapons/offensive missile capability with an unmatched ferocity. The creation of any number of innovative technologies to create a layered missile defense was an extraordinary achievement, and only with unwavering white house support were operational systems able to be developed, tested and deployed in time to achieve this. In the face, I will add, of persistent Democrat attempts to stop it at several levels. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-09-29 10:43 |