Jay Carney On Triggered Cuts To Defense Spending: 'There Is No Wiggle Room'
Posted on 12/21/2011 4:59:14 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said Tuesday that the United States can successfully attack Iran, if necessary. His biggest worry is that Iran will "miscalculate our resolve.
Dempsey, speaking to CNN during a worldwide tour, spoke one day after Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned that the American government will not allow Iran to produce a nuclear weapon. He said that if Iran continues to enrich high-grade uranium, it could produce a nuclear weapon within a year, an estimate formerly given by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
"My biggest worry is they [Iran] will miscalculate our resolve," Dempsey said in Afghanistan. "Any miscalculation could mean that we are drawn into conflict, and that would be a tragedy for the region and the world."
Besides repeating the often-used phrase“ all options are on the table,” General Dempsey went one step further and declared, "I am satisfied that the options that we are developing are evolving to a point that they would be executable if necessary.”
It was the most blatant warning made regarding Iran’s growing nuclear threat.
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Nothing he said precludes covert action or already completed and very successful operations
Why risk planes when the targets can be destroyed surreptitiously
Rattle sabres but kill them with hit and run on the ground
Then his sabre rattling just adds to the paranoia if someone else did the successful hits
I say we attack everyone before they have a chance to attack us.
It’s a win win.
“Then what?”
We occupy them for eight years then pull out and let things go to Hell.
Nation building/meals on wheels
Doesn’t seem to work with muzzie nations.
Obama bugs out of Iraq. Obama & Biden are talking with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Gee, why would anybody ‘underestimate our resolve’ when it comes to Iran? Or anywhere else for that matter?
Jay Carney On Triggered Cuts To Defense Spending: 'There Is No Wiggle Room'
The government (such as it is) just needs to pull their heads out.
Start small, say with a B61, and work their way up.
“We will find
sooner or later
if Achmed’ll pray
to a glowing crater”
Absolutely, flatten Mecca (and/or Qum) into a glass soccer field and you’ve kicked over the world’s largest fire ant mound. For a few days Omar & Achmed will go Islamic Rage Boy but then their pathetic little muzzie minds will burn out like stinky little cinders and the world will start to quickly become a better Islamfree place.
Mecca sits in a bowl just like Hiroshima. Too easy.
Won’t happen. If Europe is failing (and they are) then there will not be enough money to conduct a war. It would simply bankrupt all of us.
We are screwed one way or the other.
Perfectly plausible, but war will have to be declared and deployments made without Zippy/Valeri Jarrett.
“Its just that extended warfare crap that hurts us.”
Exactly right! Bush missed the point in Iraq. We needed to blow the place up and leave. The idea that we were on a secondary mission to “democratize” Iraq was a fools mission that cost this county in the lives of our dear young people and a big chunk of our treasury. We should be doing everything we can to get away from the Arabs and their oil. Then our mission is simplified to just keeping Israel safe from these people. Screw George Bush for making BHO possible!
Old school.
We will never need a draft.
The US can eliminate Iran's ability to produce a weapon in a mere 5 days...without the use of WMD ourselves.
Then we can leave the mullahs to their own devices.
Our strategic interests will have been satisfied and the world would be aghast.
Mutually Assured Destruction prevents all these conspiracy theories from ever evolving from speculation to reality.
Except that Northern Iraq would have been a smurfy staging area for an invasion, had the US kept troops there. That should have been the way they evacuated, via Iran.
For that to work both parties have to be sane.
Letting Iran get anywhere close to being able to harm us, much less destroy us, is mad.
Obama will start a war with Iran in late August 2012, in order to get re-elected. He'll do it in August when everyone is distracted by summer vacation.
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