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2012-02-26 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

As Pentagon Sends Reinforcements To Straits Of Hormuz, Iraq Redux Looms

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Posted by tipper 2012-02-26 10:58|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Zerohedge and foreign policy commentary do not go together.

Posted by Hellfish 2012-02-26 13:02|| 2012-02-26 13:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Zerohedge and foreign policy commentary do not go together.
LOL. All foreign policy is about economics, or rather self interest. Did I emphasis ALL? Well I'll emphasis it again.

Posted by tipper 2012-02-26 13:45|| 2012-02-26 13:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Excellent article. 'Nice job of integrating game theory - the "iterated prisoner's dilemma."

What was new to me was the close tie-in of Iranian oil exports to the continued functioning of Greece. If there were two pending calamities that I would want to keep clearly unentangled, they would be the Iranian "cruising for a bruising" situation, and the slow meltdown of Greece.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2012-02-26 21:01|| 2012-02-26 21:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Foreign policy IS about national economies and national interest, but Zerohedge has a blind spot for areas where US self-interest meshes with its foreign policy. At least Rantburg regularly discusses these issues.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-02-26 21:33|| 2012-02-26 21:33|| Front Page Top

#5 IRAN = IRAQ = "NO WMDS IN IRAN"!

Unlike Iraq, POST-INVASION IRAN = NEW, GIANT OR SUPER-SIZED "AFPAK", wid ARMED BASIJ + IRGC + LOYALIST MILFORS + OTHER ALIGNED MOVING BACK-N-FORTH INTO OCCUPIED IRAN ACROSS "NEUTRAL" SOVEREIGN BORDERS FOR THE CONDUCT OF ANTI-US/NATO/COALITION "RESISTANCE" = TERROR OPS = MIL OPS???

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > IRAN: TROUBLE BREWING, domestically + politically, + likely to worsen or explode once the new EU Embargo goes into effect this coming July 2012.

* SAME > FULL-BLOWN "PERSIAN AUTUMN" [Spring?] EXPECTED IN IRAN | [Gulf News] IRAN: THE WAR WITHIN. ANALYSTS EXPECT RESENTMENT FROM SANCTIONS-HIT PEOPLE TO EXPLODE INTO "PERSIAN AUTUMN".

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* WORLD NEWS > [Foreign Policy] "IT IS NOT IN THE US NATIONAL INTEREST TO GO TO WAR WID IRAN ANYTIME SOON".

* SAME > US COULD BE PULLED INTO WAR IFF ISRAEL STRIKES/HITS IRAN, EXPERTS SAY.

* SAME > {Times of Indjuh] BRITAIN DRAWING UP IRAN BATTLE PLANS, SAYS REPORT, in case it gets "sucked" into a Mil Conflict agz Iran.

00's of Troops + a Nuke Sub - repor may base Troops in BFF UAE, its strongest Gulf ally.

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* RUSSIA TODAY > {Patrick Young] "GREECE IN DEATH SPIRAL".

ARTIC > YOUNG = Greece should've left the EU + EUroDollar three years ago.

* SAME > IRAN DENIES GREECE 500,000 BARRELS OF OIL SHIPMENT, which Debt, EuroDollar-troubled Greece sorely needs.

Is Iran attempting to foment or spark GREEK REVOLUTION + AEGEAN, BALKAN CHAOS, i.e. FIGHTING THE US "OVER THERE" IN EUROPE'S BACKYARD, NOT THE GULF???

We have our benchmark - JULY 2012.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-02-26 22:16|| 2012-02-26 22:16|| Front Page Top

#6 OOOOPSIES, forgot POSTERS = opine that the THE COUNTDOWN TO DE FACTO US-ALLIED-VS-IRAN WAR BEGAN WHEN IRAN DECIDED TO CUT OFF OIL SUPPLIES TO SEVERAL EU COUNTRIES, as the US-West take oil cutoffs most seriously.

* "JULY 2012" = either IRAN BLINKS, OR THE US WILL BLINK IN "NUCLEAR GAME OF CHICKEN"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-02-26 22:24|| 2012-02-26 22:24|| Front Page Top

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