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Hague warns Israel against military action on Iran
2012-02-20
LONDON: Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned Israel against military action on Iran. Hague says economic sanctions and negotiations had to be given “a real chance” to convince Tehran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. He says, “I don’t think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.”
He has no alternative except to wait for the sanctions to fail.
Hague said in the interview with the BBC on Sunday that a nuclear-armed Iran would result in another cold war in the Middle East.
No, it would be rather hot...
Posted by:Steve White

#5  "Hold committee meetings until the situation is [horribly] out of control" ...

D *** NG IT, "THE SIMPSONS" > HIS NAME IS SCORPIO, HE HAS THE DOOMSDAY DEVICE + A BIKINI-CLAD GIRLFRIEND KILLER BODYGUARD-OFFICE/AFFAIRS MANAGER, HE'S OBSCENELY UPSET BECAUSE GOVT. BIGWIGS IN CONFERENCE THINK A US-MADE LANDMARK BRIDGE BUILT TO LAST A THOUSAND YARNS SUDDENLY COLLAPSED + EXPLODED BY ITSELF EVEN AFTER THEY SAW SCORPIO PUSH THE RED BUTTON.

Well there ya go.

* ION YNETNEWS > US OFFICIALS: ISRAELI ATTACK ON IRAN WOULD REQUIRE 100 PLANES, from the IDAF in highly difficult or problematic, simultaneous strike on multiple Iran Nuke targets.

* WAFF > IRAN IS MORE DISTANT THAN OSIRAK | ISRAELI [air]ATTACK ON IRAN NOT AS SIMPLE AS IT SOUNDS.

* BREAKINGNEWS.com > IRAN THREATENS TO EXTEND OIL EMBARGO IMPOSED ON BRITAIN + FRANCE TO OTHER COUNTRIES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-02-20 21:40  

#4  I like to point out that Europeans criticize "cowboy" America f

Anonymoose, you might find Anti-Americanism, by the French philosopher-journalist Jean Francois Revel helpful. He traces the origins of the various contradictory anti-American memes in a brief, crisply written volume. You may remember his Without Marx or Jesus, written after his first visit to America in the early '70s.
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-02-20 15:10  

#3  Of course that took nearly 13 underground n-tests on several fault lines.
Posted by: Water Modem   2012-02-20 12:40  

#2  Maybe Israel should consider a more subtle attack on Iran. One method that comes to mind is induced earthquakes to soften up and demoralize the nation... They could do what the USSR did to China that led up to the great 1976 Tangshang earthquake.
Posted by: Water Modem   2012-02-20 12:38  

#1  Remember when vinyl records would skip, so they would do the same brief bit of music and lyrics over and over again?

"...economic sanctions and negotiations had to be given "a real chance" to convince Tehran..."

Except that nobody has jostled this record player for *years* now.

I like to point out that Europeans criticize "cowboy" America for frequently nipping serious problems in the bud. However their attitude is to hold committee meetings until the situation is so horribly out of control that the only option left is nuclear weapons.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-02-20 08:18  

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