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2007-11-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by lotp 2007-11-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 That scenario could only play out if we allow proliferation in a territory whose dwellers have global ambitions, and a void in moral constraint.

Posted by McZoid 2007-11-23 00:39|| 2007-11-23 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 LUCIANNE > GUARDIAN - WE FRET ABOUT EUROPE BUT THE REAL THREAT TO SOVEREIGNTY IS THE USA. America to take over Buckingham?Whitehall??? ION, MADONNA'S DAUGHTER LOURDES OFFERED FILM ROLE IN "POTTER" + COMET TUTTLE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-23 01:12|| 2007-11-23 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Copy that Joe. Order 38 execute 1800 ZULU.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-11-23 03:53|| 2007-11-23 03:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Cortisman 's scenarios largely indicate a retaliatory Israel with seemingly task asserted Arab responses. Measured restraint is very possible with some of these nations fearing the 'unforced' all out options. I'm convinced Israel has already mapped the 'triggering line' of preemption, green lighted this above top secret with it's doomsday council, and would prefer the proverbial cup spilled to ¼ to ½ in defensive damage than a society crippling fallout subjection. Mutual Assured Destruction is not in Israel's best interest, Iran's mullahs may consider it's destruction fate-accompli if it also ridded the Zionist nation of it's world presence and influence, the "we did it to ourselves to do it for our brothers" would become the survivors ethnic and spiritual cry. Backing down by the Iranians with IAEA verified nuclear disassembly, or preemption by the Israelis and/or the US is the only remaining option. Iran is destined to 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin' again!

Posted by smn 2007-11-23 04:16|| 2007-11-23 04:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Pyrrhic victories for all. Iran's current leadership can NOT be trusted to behave rationally and so can not be permitted nuclear weapons.

Posted by Angumble Brown1256 2007-11-23 04:49|| 2007-11-23 04:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Anybody who expects Israel not to go "Samson in the Temple" with both nukes and biologicals, is an idiot. Unfortunately, currently the World is run by idiots.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-11-23 07:38|| 2007-11-23 07:38|| Front Page Top

#7 It is theoretically possible that the Israeli state, economy and organized society might just survive such an almost-mortal blow. Iran would not survive as an organized society. "Iranian recovery is not possible in the normal sense of the term," Cordesman notes.

Unfortunately, Iran's lust for genocide exceeds its own will to survive. More remarkable is how Egypt and Syria do not understand that they, too, will most likely perish at the behest of Iran's obsession. None of them demonstrate the least inclination to forcefully intervene against the Iranian bomb. The greater glory of a nuclear armed Islam sings a lethal siren song to such purblind fools. Hatred of the Jews is so all-consuming for these Islamic Neanderthals that it obstructs even the most basic will to survive. One begins to wonder if it doesn't justify simple pre-emption on those grounds alone. If these morons cannot rally to the cause of their own survival perhaps they do not deserve it.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-23 09:19|| 2007-11-23 09:19|| Front Page Top

#8 In view of Ahmadinejad's open threats, a nuclear-armed Iran is intolerable and cannot be allowed to happen.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-11-23 10:41|| 2007-11-23 10:41|| Front Page Top

#9 So in clear, concise and chillingly forensic style, Cordesman spells out that the real stakes in the crisis that is building over Iran's nuclear ambitions would certainly include the end of Persian civilization, quite probably the end of Egyptian civilization, and the end of the Oil Age.

Clear, concise, chillingly forensic and blindingly obvious. I could give a rat's ass about Persian civilization, Egyptian civilization was destroyed by Arabs in the 7th century and we have plenty of oil away from the Gulf. With a little ingenuity, the Oil Age should be coming to an end some time soon without or without the continued existence of islam.

Cordesman concludes his chilling but dismayingly logical survey with the warning: "The only way to win is not to play."

No, the only way to win is to smash them before they acquire nuclear weapons.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-11-23 11:09|| 2007-11-23 11:09|| Front Page Top

#10 If you look at it realistically, us bombing the hell out of Iran vice Israel counterstriking them with nukes... our bombing is probably even a humanitarian gesture for the Iranian people as well as the region and the world.

Actually the best thing we could do for Iran is kill every radical fundamentalist mullah from the top down to the local Mosque, and kill the government structures (indluding the IRG) that support them.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-11-23 13:00|| 2007-11-23 13:00|| Front Page Top

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