Squeeze Iran

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | February 9, 2007 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

[geo40xyz]

WOW, some strong stuff.. but I'm not familiar with 'Frontpagemag' are they a balanced source???

[flynmudd]

I have posted several articles from Frontpagemag in the past. It is run by David Horowitz.

[Gritty]

[sgtbono2002]

Sen. Joe Biden, Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Hillary Clinton, and Sen. Chuck Hagel.


Round up the "Usual suspects" and add Fat Ted"Killer" Kennedy.

[FlashBack]

FrontPagMag is a daily stop!!
Good articles and good links.

[Son House]

“go soft” toward Iran once again.
Among the best known advocates of this policy are
Sen. Joe Biden,
Sen. John Kerry,
Sen. Hillary Clinton, and
Sen. Chuck Hagel.

Wonder where they stand on 'global warming'?

[flynmudd]

On the left side?

[M. Dodge Thomas]

That very night, U.S. forces raided an Iranian intelligence headquarters in the Kurdish town of Irbil, capturing six Iranians... the other five turned out to be Revolutionary Guards officers. My sources identified three of them by name, and told me they were providing a treasure trove of intelligence to their U.S. interrogators..."

Let's hope so, because we really pissed off the Kurds to do this - there was a four hour armed stand-off between US and Kurdish forces.

This is the problem with Iraq - nothing is simple there - as for example "our friends the Kurds" find it in their interest to have increasingly close relations with Iran.

As for "squeezing Iran", unfortunately it's a lot easier for Iran to make life difficult of us in Iraq than it is for us to make life difficult for Iran. And that includes just about any form of practical military action; we can mount an air campaign against Iran, but unless we are prepared to invade and occupy the county (a much bigger project than Iraq) they can leak increasing quantities of increasing lethal weapons into Iraq for a lot longer than we are likely willing to stay there.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Cox and Forkum got it right. We should identify a bunch of targets, training camps, IED factories, intelligence facilities, Revolutionary Guards everywhere, Foreign Ministry, etc in Iran and take them out.

[flynmudd]

A just fight is worth it all. I believe in this fight with all my heart and mind. If I didn't, I wouldn't brag about my son's service, I would just be another Cindy Sheman.

[DocRock]

BTTT

[Son House]

Not the soft side.

[rfp1234]

Terrorists cutting and running! Just what the dims want US to do. Who would have thought?

[JasonC]

Yes well, it is believeable that they have 5000 agents in every ministry, and it is heartening that we have arrested some of them and have some intel on them. But truly, 2 raids in 3 months nabbing a grand total of a dozen people (if that) is hardly rounding up 5000, is it?

If we know they have so many agents and have so much intel on it all, why in blazes have there been only a couple of raids and a handful of arrests?

[JasonC]

We don't have to stay there. "Butcher and bolt", the British called it on the northwest frontier of India. Sink or seize the Iranian merchant marine, smash a dozen oil terminals, and they are out $50 billion a year. That will smart for a long, long time.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

We don't have to stay there. "Butcher and bolt", the British called it on the northwest frontier of India. Sink or seize the Iranian merchant marine, smash a dozen oil terminals, and they are out $50 billion a year. That will smart for a long, long time.

You forgot to add the coda: the British eventually failed in their attempt to impose the government of their choice in India, and the country was violently partitioned along religious lines.

Probably there is some level of US effort in Iraq that could lock down the country and tamp down resistance to perhaps the level of the IRA campaign against the British - at least for a time - but clearly this level of commitment is far beyond that which is supported by a large majority of US voters.

And absent that commitment and support, anything short of a similar occupation of Iran (a much bigger project than even the occupation of Iraq) which angers the Iranians is likely only to increase their level of support for the Shia insurgency.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

"A just fight is worth it all. I believe in this fight with all my heart and mind. If I didn't, I wouldn't brag about my son's service, I would just be another Cindy Sheman.

I'm proud of my nephew's service and grateful for it - I'm proud of and grateful for all the American men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the military generally.

But their devotion to duty is no guarantee that it will be put to use wisely by our leaders - even a just fight can be fought in the wrong place, or at the wrong time.

[petercooper]

bttt

[M Kehoe]

Let's see...140 thousand combat troops on your western border, 20 thousand combat troops on your eastern border, and 2 carrier battle groups on your southern border. Yep, I'd call that a squeeze.

Now it is time to use the hammer and anvil. Serving this cold dish to the mullahs is long overdue. Twenty nine years overdue.

5.56mm