Posted on 02/14/2007 10:10:06 PM PST by neverdem
We all know the Iranian M.O. - nuclear proliferation, Holocaust denial, threats to wipe out Israel, vicious anti-Western rhetoric, lavish sponsorship of terrorists at work attacking Israel and destabilizing Lebanon.
If that were not enough, we now learn that Iran has been sending agents into Iraq to destroy the fledgling democracy and supplying sophisticated roadside bombs to blow up Americans.
Lunatic state-run media keep boasting that Iran will kidnap American soldiers, shut down the Straits of Hormuz, send out global jihadists and raise the price of oil.
Most international observers agree on two things about this loony theocracy that promises to take the world down with it: We should not yet bomb Iran, and it should not get the bomb. Yet the former forbearance could well ensure the latter reality.
What, then, should the United States do other than keep offering meaningless platitudes about "dialogue" and "talking"?
Imagine that Iran is a hardboiled egg with a thin shell. We should tap it lightly wherever we can - until tiny fissures join and shatter the shell.
We can begin to do this by pushing international accords and doggedly ratcheting up the weak United Nations sanctions. Even if they don't do much to Iran in any significant way, the resolutions seem to enrage Ahmadinejad. And when he rages at the United Nations, he only loses further support, especially in the Third World.
We should start another fissure by prodding the European Union, presently Iran's chief trading partner, to be more vocal and resolute in pressuring Iran. The so-called EU3 - Britain, France and Germany - failed completely to stop Iran's nuclear proliferation. But out of that setback came a growing realization among Europeans that a nuclear-tipped missile from theocratic Iran could soon hit Europe just as easily as it could Israel. Now...
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Wise stuff from VDH.
Will check again in the AM, but is there a VDH ping list?
We need to shut down Iran's oil fields. No oil sales will hurt Iran worse than it hurts us. Higher oil prices will spur new energy sources.
Guess who has it.
Sooner or later, we're gonna have to give the Muslims the jihad they so desperately want;
and this time we'll finish the job.
Let me know if you want in or out.
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I vote for targeted assassinations of the little monkey and some of the Mullahs.
I vote for targeted assassinations of the little monkey and some of the Mullahs.
VDH is being pragmatic but I don't sense his heart is in it and the timing of this and other advocates of peace such as the Economist do not herald the recent European report admitting the failure of engagement with Iran.
My sense is that this is still heading to an awful crescendo.
Can we just move right to the bombing? That is what will happen anyway.
Let's just get to the bombing and get it over with!
The song "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran!" comes right to mind whenever I read that Amenijihad has made some dumbass apocolyptical jihadist terrorist statement or another.
The time is ripe for us to singe some ragheads beards!
2.3 billion Christians worldwide, and 1.1 billion Muslims...
Bring it.
Excellent advice.
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