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2006-01-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by tipper 2006-01-18 08:04|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, I can't say it's much of a surprise, there've been so many - most wearing the same label: Mfg in France

But an engineered crisis - a schoolyard scheme of blind hatred and jealousy - with no thought about how to stop it, once rolling...

He hears the silence howling --
Catches angels as they fall.
And the all-time winner
Has got him by the balls.
He picks up Gideons Bible --
Open at page one --
~~Old Charlie~~ Monique she stole the handle and
The train it wonât stop going --
No way to slow down.

Shitstorians born after the dust settles will look back upon this time and boggle.

Posted by .com 2006-01-18 09:07|| 2006-01-18 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Quoting Tull? What a nerd... ;)

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-01-18 11:31|| 2006-01-18 11:31|| Front Page Top

#3 The Euros want to have it both ways.

"Expose American folly"; blame us for impatience if we strike and blame us for inaction if Iran gets her nukes.

In the DeVillepain mindset, they're covered every way.

That is literally all that matters to them.

At what point do we start applying a cost/benefit analysis to our "alliances"?

Posted by Gloting Snumble2857 2006-01-18 11:38|| 2006-01-18 11:38|| Front Page Top

#4 The trio were anxious to be deceived, and were deceived by their own illusions rather than any chicanery on the part of Iran. All they were interested in was to score a point against Washington.

I don't buy it. I've been convinced for a while that the EUros (France, in particular) actually want Iran to get the bomb. In their view: it would humiliate us and severely constrain our military options (win/win), it would be the ultimate leverage against Israel, and they believe they can buy off or deflect any threats aimed at them.

I truly believe they are duplicitous enough to do that, and I believe my view passes the Occam's razor test better that the view that they were sincere but got fooled.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-01-18 12:09|| 2006-01-18 12:09|| Front Page Top

#5 European-style appeasement, partly motivated by a desire to pull faces at Washington, has encouraged the most radical faction in Teheran and helped to bring Ahmadinejad to power.

Didn't their mommas tell them not to make faces because they might stick that way? Europe's startled look of horror as Iran starts dictating policy to them will be priceless. Effing morons.

Posted by Zenster 2006-01-18 23:44|| 2006-01-18 23:44|| Front Page Top

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