Posted on 10/06/2009 7:12:47 PM PDT by topfile
War with Iran is now inevitable. The only question is: Will it happen sooner or later?
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Washington now has two choices: Sanction an American or Israeli military attack to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities or allow Tehran to go nuclear. Either option means war.
A devastating strike would likely trigger a fierce Iranian response, including waves of suicide bombers targeting Israeli civilians and U.S. troops in Iraq. Iranian missiles would pound Israeli and, maybe, European cities. Vital shipping lanes in the Persian Gulf would be disrupted, driving the price of oil to more than $300 a barrel - plunging the West into a possible depression. Hezbollah sleeper cells might be activated within the United States, unleashing deadly atrocities on American soil.
Yet, allowing a nuclear-armed Iran is likely to lead to an even worse regional war. Once the ruling clerics get their hands on nukes, a military showdown with Israel is inevitable. They will seek to destroy the Jewish state once and for all. Jerusalem will not stand by and commit existential suicide. It will retaliate. The result would be a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East.
The winds of war are blowing across the Persian Gulf. Following this summer's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the Iranian regime is weak, desperate and fracturing. Washington should vigorously pursue a policy of internal regime change; otherwise, Tehran will drag the Middle East into a certain conflagration that could lead to the slaughter of millions.
Instead, Mr. Obama has ruled out "meddling in Iran's internal affairs." His peace-at-any-cost diplomacy guarantees military conflict. It is no longer a question of if this will happen, but when and on whose terms. Mr. Obama is sleepwalking into disaster. America and the Middle East will pay the price.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks he is simply excelerating the coming of the thier Hidden Imam or Shi'ite Messiah.
What is Obama thinking?
Won’t happen on Obama’s watch.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.
Obama wants all his muslim brethren to have nukes. Anything to destroy this country. And as we go down his “followers” will continue to make excuses and say he misspoke.
Q: “What is Obama thinking?”
A: The muslim prayer at sunset is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.
Send all of Afghanistan’s opium to Iran.
...the tip off will be when Obama withdraws troops.....
then has to reinsert them......he can’t fill a request now, dealing with a war,is something his advisors can’t be trusted to accomplish......he’s in quite a pickle.
The sooner the better. It’s not like it’s not going to happen. When a man tells you he’s going to kill you... best you believe him.
Bibi: take them out
Barack order an attack on IRAN...?! That is a knee-slapper, truly.
That’s like running into Jimmah Carter at a gun-show...!
Maybe he agrees with Ahmadinejad?
Well the left has screwed around and screwed around and screwed around when it comes to Iran.
And now we’ll be told it’s the conservatives fault for this....
My suspicion is that the Madman is not going to start blowing things up after he gets his bomb, but is instead going to try to intimidate, much as the North Korean pygmy does. That spectacle won’t be good for Obama’s apologists, either.
The rumor is that the Saudis are quietly prodding the Iraelis to act, but I suspect they will act if Israel does not.
“Washington now has two choices: Sanction an American or Israeli military attack to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities or allow Tehran to go nuclear. Either option means war.”
So the sollution is to go to war????
Good grief. Can no one think of a solution to anything besides destroying property and killing as many people as possible?
Hank
I believe that the Saudis have given Israel permission to fly over Saudi airspace when the attack on Iran finally comes. Naturally, the Saudis will deny this, but they hate, and fear, the Iranians.
He thinks the Iranians are like the Sunni Muslim kids he went to school with in Indonesia. He needs to learn that the leaders of Iran are much wackier than that. He may think he can get away with voting "present" if Iran tries to attack Israel, but the Israelis will retaliate, and then what does Obama do?
“Mr. Obama has ruled out “meddling in Iran’s internal affairs.” “
He only meddles in Honduras’ internal affairs
That sounds reasonable unless Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs are indeed fanatics. Godless North Korea certainly has a different ideology agreed?
History will show US strategy in Iraq was undertaken with long term goals and needs in mind. Obama will be a fool to squander them.
Obama desparately does not want war with Iran, and his leftist supporters in the Democratic Party are adamantly against it. The usual crowd of leftist and liberal types are already whining about Afghanistan. There is the possibility, however, that Obama will be dragged into a war with Iran, whether he wants it or not.
Not the solution, but the likely outcome. The writer is advocating that "Washington should vigorously pursue a policy of internal regime change". The problem is Obama has seemingly ruled that out.
Enlighten us there, Mr. Kerchief. What solution do you have to the biggest sponsor of Islamist terrorism in the world? Should they be allowed to get nukes, or not?
Obammy will kick the can down the road for the next Republican administration.
That way more American soldiers will be killed, and the Democrats can blame the GOP for every casualty. Both ours and theirs.
Obammy will have his off-shore accounts, his faculty position in the Ivy League, his ceremonial UN job as “ambassador at large,” and his Nobel prize. He’ll be living large when this thing blows excrement-high.
Let’s all chip in and buy him one, or what the heck, buy him a pair for the sake of the missus. Withdraw the troops from Iraq for Afghanistan by way of a devastatingly bombed Iran dispatching as many of those who respond belligerently as possible and as many of those who happen to be in the way as we whack the belligerents during a pre-announced time for transit of U.S forces across Iran to Afghanistan to deal with that bunch. If Alexander the grape could do it without air support, Obama can do it with air support and nukes if he has one or two of what he needs. If he already has some, he has certainly concealed the fact heretofore.
Like scuttling the missile shield?
That’s a possibility, but I think even the Madman realizes that if he uses the bomb, he’s toast (assuming we can trace it to him).
Of course, if Obama is still President, maybe he’s not toast.
The Times forgot to mention the “Sell out Israel and welcome our new Persian masters” option. I think that is the one that has been locked onto by Lord Zero.
Yep..
So the question is.. What will Obama do to avoid this scenario?
Oops, my bad, 0bama is president. He has nothing swinging between his legs.
5.56mm
I truely hope you're right, but I wouldn't bet my life on it...literally.....
Carpet-bomb the Hajj with B-52's laden with Iowa pigs.
Release photoshopped video of Ahmadinejad noodling with Bar Refaeli (or Nancy Pelosi).
Cheers!
Does too. Her name is Hillary.
Cheers!
Hank
I don't know, Hank - that sounds like a mighty fine solution to me. :)
“Obama will be dragged into a war with Iran, whether he wants it or not.”
1. Maybe this is what Biden meant by the cryptic comment about Obama being tested to do something his supporters won’t like?
2. On the other hand, maybe Obama IS the hidden Imam?
Harkin and Grassley?
Oh my. I'll thank you to not invoke that particular bit of imagery again. Please.
One Nation should put the insignia of another nation (some western European country) on its aircraft and bomb only oil production and oil shipping targets. Then the rest of the world would get the job done.
;-)
The question assumes Obama is thinking. I'm afraid all of his cognitive abilities have been adapted to running for office. Foreign policy? Defense policy? Obama doesn't think about such things, he merely emotes.
the saudis should man up, grow a set and deal with the little maniac themselves. they have the tools we have sold them over the years. isreal should sit it out, and let the other arab states who are threatened by iran take care of business.
Obama will never start a war with Iran, however he will be unable to escape reacting to attacks on the United States following Israel’s inevitable attacks against the Iranian nuclear sites.
Israel will start it, and Obama will be forced to react; the only question is whether he goes after Iran or Israel...
Israel bombs and state sponsored terror escalates around the world. The US suffers an attack equal or greater than 911. The US public is outraged.
What happens?
Most likely...
I suspect Iran will join with some other countries - and we'll be attacked. I still think Russia's a swing - but we'll see.
Frighteningly plausible. I think we'll know soon enough though.
A luxury time will not likely afford Obama.
Alas Babylon! Lord, how I miss G.W. and Reagan.
Don’t forget people, that the really big wars start with democrat presidents. Obama has something to prove. He also wants a big wag the dog. Iran is getting it...
the infowarrior
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