Herbert E. Meyer: Take Out the Mullahs – Tonight

The American Thinker ^ | February 7th, 2006 | Herbert E. Meyer

[Tolik]

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Index of his articles posted on FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=HerbertEMeyer

[Tolik]

Very Interesting!

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[billybudd]

Bad argument. The Mullahs aren't running at us with nukes. It's a subtle game, so "shoot first ask questions later" is not an obvious policy, as it is in the school-bomber example.

[Tolik]

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[Puppage]

The Mullahs aren't running at us with nukes

Yeah, well just wait until they grab hold of one.

[USS Alaska]

Double tap

[butternut_squash_bisque]

"Now, what do you propose to do?"

Simple. I carry concealed a Kimber 1911 .45cal. What happens in the school case is a no=brainer. I'll have to get back to you on the other problem, after some thought.

[Leofl]

Ping for Later
Thank you

[lilylangtree]

Shoot first and ask questions later.

[Our man in washington]

I'm not ready to sacrifice a few thousand of my fellow Americans lives for all these "might be, could be, always a chance that" threats.

Why are we convinced deterrence won't work with Iran? I know the Muslims have that death cult thing going, but only the 18 year-olds are determined to blow themselves up. The 50 year-olds would rather sit in their comfy seats in parliment, and almost certainly take retaliation by Israel and the U.S. quite seriously.

We need to make it an official part of U.S. policy that if a country gives terrorists WMDs, that country will be held responsible for whatever the terrorists do.

The best bet is to build up a free and prosperous Iraq. Iranians will start looking across the border and saying "Hey! Why can't we have that?"

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[MajorityOfOne]

Agreed - dumb, alarmist analogy.

[princess leah]

Well, we know Syria is the source of a good deal of terrorism and WMDs - so, drop the big one on them and cutoff the source of ALOT of trouble...

[B.O. Plenty]

Iran “probably” hasn’t yet built a bomb or gotten its hands on enough fissile material to build one....

The obvious question being: ...are we willing to take the chance?...

[EQAndyBuzz]

"It's a subtle game, so "shoot first ask questions later" is not an obvious policy, as it is in the school-bomber example."

I don't think this game is subtle. I believe that once Radical Islam has a bomb, then the game changes. Who do we attack? It is like the RATS when they told us to chase Bin Laden and hunt down Al Queada? Where? Do we just go into a country and tear apart the place looking for Al Queada?

Fact is we know Iran is building a bomb so attacking Iran is the most logical solution. We set back Iraq almost 20 years. We shouldn't hesitate to do the same with Iran.

[G.Mason]

"It Isn’t Only Nukes"

Right, but for the wrong reason.

It isn't other WMD's (although that is a consideration)

It is about halting the global stench of Islam, and by doing away with the Mullahs and other pig farmers, it will slow them down enough to get a good bead on the next leaders heads that pop up, Moose Limbs or others.

[Restorer]

a cupful of anthrax or botulism is enough to kill 100,000 people

Accurate but irrelevant. It's really hard to get those 100,000 people to quietly line up for their injections.

Any other delivery is probably at least an order of magnitude less efficient.

[VRWCmember]

Herbert E. Meyer: Take Out the Mullahs – Tonight

Well, they would make for cheap dates since they generally shun alcohol, but I still wouldn't want to take them out.

[theFIRMbss]

>Bad argument. The Mullahs aren't running at us with nukes.

You're mixing things up.
The Mullahs die 'cause they're nuts
inciting terror.

Terrorists with nukes
die because they're nuts with nukes.
They're separate groups

but they're all targets
and the sooner they're scratched off
the sooner they're gone.