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2006-05-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-05-19 01:43|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Like Saint Bill, IRAN wants to make it categorically absolutely undeniably, unequivocally unconditionally, but only co-incidentally, clear to its ME neightbors - Iran and MadMoud will NOT attack or destroy its ME neighbors! SSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH,Iranian-supported/controlled Radical Terror groups-militias will, ergo Iran cannot be blamed for anything.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-05-19 02:11|| 2006-05-19 02:11|| Front Page Top

#2 I would love to see the United States go totally anal on all the governments of the Middle East, from pakistan to libya, and south to somalia and sudan. I'd even volunteer to go back into uniform and be assigned anywhere the Air Force wants me. I can't speak for OS or CyberSarge, but I'm sure the sentiment is valid for a lot of us "old fogies". It wouldn't take very long to build the US military into a 10-million man force, if the Government would quit playing games.

Of course, the first thing that would have to be done would be to round up all the dummycritter "peaceniks" and send them to Guantanamo...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-05-19 16:04|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-19 16:04|| Front Page Top

#3 All the tacit agreements between Iran and the USA on Iraq and Afghanistan are likely to collapse.

Oh, really? And what might these "tacit agreements" be?

In addition, Iran and Al-Qaeda may put their differences aside and stand side by side against the United States.

What, will Iran now give them their Teheran apartments rent free?

Posted by tu3031 2006-05-19 16:10|| 2006-05-19 16:10|| Front Page Top

#4 al-Q is making a very bad assumption, namely that "the Ummah" will at some point rise up to defeat the US and whoever else. Again and again they posit that *something* will finally motivate *everybody* to take up arms and go to war.

However, the US knows better. Most people are not inclined to fight at all, and a minority will only fight if it is their neighborhood. And only a tiny number will leave their neighborhood to go fight somewhere else, even if someone holds their hand and pays for them to go.

This is why armies are created only by governments. Only governments can stimulate men to go fight en masse. Otherwise, you just have a small handful of hotheads, and when they are gone, they are gone.

And the US has been systematically bleeding the hotheads throughout the Moslem world in Iraq and Afghanistan. There just aren't that many left.

So al-Q stupidly looks forward to the Moslem world getting thumped. It assumes, time and again, that this will be *the* last straw.

In a US and Iran fight, the Iranian government will demand that all non-Mullahs go to the front lines and die for the cause of the Mullahs. But the US is not going to slaughter a bunch of green and unwilling recruits. We will go around them and take out the dedicated and determined Mullah supporters, and hopefully the Mullahs themselves.

Optimally, the tens or hundreds of thousands of green recruits sent to the front will get little out of the experience other than some foot blisters and an appetite from not eating a whole lot for two or three weeks. Then they will go home.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-19 16:38|| 2006-05-19 16:38|| Front Page Top

#5 since they've been so successful in all their objectives in Iraq that they have to find a new battlefield

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-19 16:59|| 2006-05-19 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Of course, the first thing that would have to be done would be to round up all the dummycritter "peaceniks" and send them to Guantanamo...

You misspelled "cannon fodder".

Posted by AzCat 2006-05-19 23:08|| 2006-05-19 23:08|| Front Page Top

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