Posted on 11/18/2010 7:32:45 AM PST by nuconvert
I sometimes wonder where some of our smartest people get their ideas. Take Defense Secretary Bob Gates, for example. Discussing the possibility of military action against Iranian nuclear weapons facilities, he said: “And if it’s a military solution, as far as I’m concerned, it will bring together a divided nation, it will make them absolutely committed to attaining nuclear weapons and they will just go deeper and more covert.”
I don’t get it. Is there some sort of evidence? What could it possibly be, aside from the sort I get from my Ouija board? So I try to imagine one of the tens of millions of Iranian opponents of the regime. Perhaps he’s got a relative in prison; he probably knows people who have lost a family member or two to the regime’s killers and torturers. He dreams of a free Iran, of an end to the humiliating circumstances in which Iranians now find themselves: widely considered to be terrorists, barbarians, and savages. And then one day somebody blows up a bunch of nuclear labs, some secret military installations, and RG headquarters in the major cities. Does that guy now rally round the supreme leader? I don’t think so.
Not that I’m trying to talk Gates into bombing Iran; quite the opposite, in fact. Our greatest weapon is political, and consists in the overwhelming majority of Iranians who hate the regime. If we supported them with vigor and a sense of humor, I think the regime would be overthrown and we wouldn’t have to worry about the “military option.” But we don’t hear any vigorous support for the democratic opposition from this administration. And more to the point, nothing concrete is done for them.
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I’m expecting Obama to reprise Nixon’s trip to China by flying into Tehran unannounced.
I know some people who think that when a kid says a dirty word you should just ignore him, because he enjoys getting attention. That’s BS as far as my wife and I are concerned. The first naughty word that came out of our kids’ mouths was greeted with an onslaught that left them stunned, scared and resolved that they never wanted that to happen again. And it didn’t.
Would this be the Obama enactment of the return of the twelfth Imam?
Maybe we might get lucky and they would keep him.
ping
Favorite line:
“For the record, Khamenei said today that he and the Chimp get along famously...”
Lol
I guess it’s too late to expect that Obama would reprise Nixon’s trip to China by reaching out to America.
The problem is that those people - the one's who hate the regime - are powerless.
He’d never fly back out.
Michael Ledeen: ...one of the tens of millions of Iranian opponents of the regime... dreams of a free Iran, of an end to the humiliating circumstances in which Iranians now find themselves... one day somebody blows up a bunch of nuclear labs, some secret military installations, and RG headquarters in the major cities. Does that guy now rally round the supreme leader? I don't think so... Our greatest weapon is political, and consists in the overwhelming majority of Iranians who hate the regime. If we supported them with vigor and a sense of humor, I think the regime would be overthrown and we wouldn't have to worry about the "military option." But we don't hear any vigorous support for the democratic opposition from this administration. And more to the point, nothing concrete is done for them.
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