Posted on 05/20/2006 8:50:52 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Ahmadinejad: Promises the "end of history in 2-3 years?"
- Haaretz reported that former Military Intelligence chief Aharon Ze'evi claimed that Ahmadinejad has been overheard promising the "end of history in two or three years."
Iran turns down "potential" EU3 carrots.
- Telegraph reported that Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has poured scorn on a European package of incentives designed to persuade the Islamic state to break off its nuclear program, saying that to accept them would be like trading chocolate for gold.
Iran wants to offer the EU3 Carrots instead.
- Xinhua reported that Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said that Tehran would offer economic incentives to the European Union in return for its recognition of Iran's right to enriching uranium for peaceful purposes.
Perm5 + Germany postpone meeting.
- Yahoo News reported that a top-level meeting of the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members and Germany to discuss the Iranian nuclear standoff has been postponed while the United States seeks to harden proposed penalties if Tehran does not give up uranium enrichment.
- China Daily reported that French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy urged the international community to present a united front in confronting Iranian efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
Direct Talks with Iran?
- Ilan Berman, The New York Daily News argued that direct talks with mullahs will backfire.
- David Frum, National Post gave six reasons why direct negotiations with Iran are a bad idea.
- Karim Sadjadpour, Patrick Clawson, Council on Foreign Relations also debated: Should the U.S. Negotiate Directly with Iran?
Here are a few other news items you may have missed.
- RIA Novosti reported that a deputy speaker of the Russian parliament proposed that Iran be granted full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
- Reuters reported that Jordanian officials accused Hamas of plotting to stage attacks on its soil using smuggled weapons, including Iranian rocket launchers.
- Yahoo News reported that Iran is enlisting Syria and Hamas as allies in the battle over its disputed nuclear program and why it may not matter.
- Ramin Parham, National Review Online argued that the Islamic regime in Iran has not lost sight its most imminent and present danger to its existence: its own people.
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A war with Ahmadinejad is inevitable, because he intends to start one no matter what anyone else wants.
The only quesiton is whether we want to wage the war before he gets nukes, or after.
It may be the end of Armageddonejad's history even sooner than that.
Iran will have to start one if they want one.
You mean like after Ahmadinejad nukes Tel Aviv?
Anybody would have to be crazy to start a big war. Iammadjohn might do it. As far as nuking this or that city, it would take more than one A-bomb to actually destroy a city.
The present is the buffer between the end of history and the start of the future. So the end of history is just an instant ago.
Another explanation...
The present is a convienent fiction to keep the past from bumping into the future.
I am not saying we should nuke Tehran. I'm no military strategist, and have no idea what our best option is for neutralizing Iran as a threat. I do know, hoever, that diplomacy will not get the job done.
What I'm saying is that we have to recognize that war is inevitable, and that we should fight it as we see fit at a time of our own choosing.
I believe Hiroshima was destroyed as a "city", and Nagasaki as well. For all intents and purposes, the tiny state of Israel is like a "city" in the sense that a nuke would be so devestating as to require all means to circumvent even the possibility of a nuke being launched at it.
There is nothing new under the sun, history repeats itself. FDR's challenges of hitler's holocaust/japan's pearl harbor are being repeated in GWB's iranian nazi-nut-911 strike/china's stealth soldiers hidden in the mexican flood, just waiting the orders to strike our military bases/electric grid(the movie is RED DAWN). Pray for our president, the burden he is carrying as CIC is truly awesome. Will we be as victorious in this coming WWIII as we were in WWII? Its all in GOD's hands as you say.
Has somebody nuked Tel Aviv? No?
The Hiroshima city trolley continued to run all day and forever. City service didn't stop just because of a few city blocks being incinerated. Nagasaki was nearly missed altogether. Both cities are still doing very well.
It took only 19 terrorists and three airplanes to destroy the Twin Towers, kill 3,000 Americans and nearly demolish the Pentagon. And let's not forget that those 19 terrorists managed to destroy our economy for about three years and forever change the way we live. One nuke in any city on earth will destroy that city, via the blast, the raging infernos afterward, the radiation, and the tidal wave of terror which will spread through the remains of that city like a tsunami. The markets will tumble in every nation, the prices of oil and gas will soar out of control, and panic will spread all over the earth. Iran's nuclear ambitions must be stopped, and soon.
That is already well known, unlike the origin of chess. What do Zoroastrians think of Christians?
This statement is insane. Both cities were so devastated that Hirohito surrendered to the allies, and he was a man who was prepared to fight the allies to the death in the streets of Japan. Take this fact together with the fact that today's nukes are far more powerful than the early A-bomb, and Israel will for all intents and purposes cease to exist as a nation for years to come, (and this assumes that only one bomb will hit). Iran must be stopped.
The end of his history maybe. This fool has no idea what the West is capable of.
Japan surrendered to the US because Russia was bearing down on them. The power of A-bombs is vastly overestimated by most civilians, and the power of radioactive fallout even more so.
As long as we still have the present and future
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