Posted on 09/08/2009 4:14:48 PM PDT by Amerisrael
According to U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the most effective way to stop the Iranian Islamist regime from acquiring nukes, is to threaten them with a military build-up of other Islamist regimes:
"US allies in the Middle East should strengthen their respective militaries to deter Iran from continuing its suspected nuclear weapons program..."
If by that, Gates meant supplying Israel with all the bunker busters, refueling aircraft, and F22's it has sought to purchase, that might cause the mullahs knees to knock.
But since the U.S. Administration has denied Israel purchase of bunker busters and refueling aircraft, certainly needed for a preemptive strike,
Gates must instead have been referring to those "other" Islamist dictatorship regimes in the Middle East besides Iran.
As far as "our allies" in the Middle East are concerned, America only has one real ally. Israel. And the Obama Administration, instead of helping to strenghthen Israel's capability against Iran, have sought to undermine Israel.
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Hey, it’s part of the economic stimulus! Think of all the stuff we can give the Arabs to offset Iran’s nukes! Logic or sense of it be damned./sarc
Talk about a bad idea. If this guy thinks that we actually have Islamic allies who are not going to eventually turn on us, he is dumber than I thought he was.
Just another bureaucrat wanting to keep his job. ;-)
No way around it. We are going to have to do what the Russians did. Just announce that if a nuke goes off in our country we vaporize every nation that ever had a terrorist camp in it.
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