The New Threats from Iran are Serious - VANITY

Vanity ^ | 10-30-2005 | EternalHope

[Sender]

Yes, never forget that the majority of the Iranian people are under duress; they aren't speaking their real thoughts.

[redpoll]

Well, all of this is interesting, and might even be more than just the wet dream of a Hitler wannabe. Certainly these folks do want to kill us. However, they have no clue about the real nature of the American or Israeli character. A direct strike on Israel will be balanced with annihilation of the enemy. I once heard an Israeli politician say that the phrase "Never Again" did not just refer to acquiesing to the Holocaust, but to the lack of aggressive response following the Holocaust. As far as the Americans go, a fair number of us are already convinced that we need to go to whatever lengths to defend our culture and country, and an all-out assault by Iran would receive far more than 1 million troops eager to fight back. The media and academic elites are loud but their numbers are small. I'm sure that a bunch of those going off to defend the culture will also be willing to tell a few leftists along the way to go to hell. The Iranians only see the Michael Moores and the Cindy Sheehans of this country and assume that they speak for vast numbers of Americans, in the same way that the Hitlers and the Tojos thought the isolationists spoke for America in 1940. Tyranny has trouble with republics in that regard; the republic seems weak, until confronted, and then the republic is unstoppable. Just a few thoughts IMHO.

[GOPJ]

Especially at the exact time that much of the world, even the UN and Europe, are desperately hoping that Iran will be good and appear to be benign so that they won't have to 'do anything' about the Iranian nuke sites, which would certainly stir up a hornet's nest and no one wants to do that. To blurt out threats now is almost a guarantee that Israel or someone else will 'do something' about them.

Either the Iranians have no concept of strategy and deception, or they know that someone is about to 'do something'. Or, there is the small possibility that they are just stupid and blathering and impotent, and did I mention stupid?

OK, I'll go with door number two... Iranians are strategic and paranoid. They live and breath the stuff - you don't want to play any game that requires both speed and complex strategy with an Iranian. Their drawback is the overlay of Muslim thinking - something that puts an irrational patina on all other thoughts... But they're not stupid. And that leaves "they know someone is about to do something". Hmmmm, so the reaction to what they said, then the reaction to that, then the exposure of a break, then resolution - and that's what they want. Also, they know something we don't know. Something that makes this move rational within their rather irrational system.

[Vinomori]

VERY well-done vanity post. Obviously provoking good thought. Why do people whine about the MSM that no one watches anyway? It's like saying "you'll never hear this good music on 8-track." So what? Right now MOST people go to their computer screens for their news and analysis. A vanity like yours gets wider thought than wolf blitzer or tim russert. So keep alert as you are.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Since the Iran lunatics believe this crap about eclipses, Allah, and all that other BS, it just proves once again that insane radicals should not own nuclear weapons.

Russia, China, Israel, the UK and the USA better do something about these fanatics, or the mess will be greater in the future than taking care of them now--taking care is eradicating these peoples' "leaders".