Posted on 06/20/2015 3:02:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Just carpet bomb the place with EBT Cards.
Iran’s plan was to get Obama elected. He’s done more damage than Iran could ever hope to do.
And Obama had his chance to change Iran for the better, when they had the student uprising. If Obama gave one word of support the Iranian Mullahs would have been thrown out by now.
Wouldn’t have to invade. All wee need to do is support those factions who would willingly overthrow the government. ..
Wait.....
Yes it was published in the W-P on Dec 7th, 1997.
Did Bush reverse the Clinton Launch on Warning cancellation? I doubt it.
Clinton instructed the military (and us) to take the nuke hits, then. . . ?
"The notion that the United States still had to be prepared to fight and win a protracted nuclear war today seemed out of touch with reality given the fact that it has been six years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In this connection, [Robert Bell, senior director for defense policy and arms control for Clinton's National Security Council] said the 1981 [Reagan] directive 'reads like a document you would expect to have been written at the height of the Cold War, not something that you would want operative today....'"
"Bell said 'in this [Clinton] PDD we direct our military forces to continue to posture themselves in such a way as to not rely on launch on warning -- to be able to absorb a nuclear strike and still have enough force surviving to constitute credible deterrence.'"
[My emphasis]
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997_11-12/pdd.asp
Lots of the Clinton PDD was withheld from the public but probably the orders are to take the nuclear hits, form a committee, announce there's no Islam connection (Bush Obama addition), ask the U.N. for permission to find out who done it . . . .
Not surprising that the Wash Post carried the details of this on December 7th (1997).
Thank you Presidents Clinton, New Democrat Third Way progressives. This is a fine mess you got us into. Oh.. and F-you Hillary 2016.
Sunni Cleric: Allah Will Send an 'American Gorbachev' to End the American Empire Soon published May 19, 2008.
It is a strategy that works fine if you don't bail out and undermine the US-friendly regime.
It worked perfectly in Japan and Germany, two places that never knew democracy, liberty or freedom. It just took decades of US involvement to make sure it worked.
Fornicate precision munitions, carpet bomb it to oblivion. Let the big dog eat. The IEDs were provocation enough.
That's a croc of sh!t.
The USN/Marines could establish docks and a 15,000 man beach head in 5 days.
From their the Army cold roll off the pre-positioned ships on Deigo Garcia and the Air Force could start building runways.
It's like, who could stop them?
Thanks. I recall a startling tale of the first time Fife heard of Barack Obama—18 years ago in Russia.
I don't think I had a link.
(for my future google searches for this thread: 1990s man working in Russia on contract is told Soviets picked Obama as president)
You mean the "friendly regime" that refused to agree to the Status of Forces agreement with the Bush administration? The one which turned its own armed forces into a corrupt joke and which is so crooked that its own people won't fight for it? That US-friendly regime?
The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012
It's running a little late but . . . .
Back in 1992 a Lt. Col. wrote about the future that many back then envisioned.. a hollowed out military is sent off to the Middle East after years of neglect by U.S. administrations. Disaster resulted and the military finally! acted in 2012
-- it's going on four years, guys! What are you waiting for? It's okay to do it and then go to war with what you have to win easily and quickly.
Only an idiot would try to invade Iran.
Imminent war ping.
Yup. That is the one.
If you can't handle some tough negotiations, then maybe you don't deserve granny panties.
Almost any decent US POTUS would have come to a status of forces agreement with Iraq. Obama did not want one....the result is ISIS.
Both Germany and Japan wanted us out many times. But we always stayed because letting them fall into chaos was what happened after World War I and resulted in the rise of Hitler.
Well, Obama did it again and it is resulting in the rise of ISIS.
“”The USN/Marines could establish docks and a 15,000 man beach head in 5 days.
From their the Army cold roll off the pre-positioned ships on Deigo Garcia and the Air Force could start building runways.””
I have no doubt we have the know how to do this. But do we have the needed forces (trained and ready troops, equipment, and logistics) to do this today?
When we did the “Surge” it took 6 months from the decision to do it, and that was only 10,000 troops into an area we already occupied, not establishing an area of operation on enemy soil.
Aren’t our forces marshaling to blunt China’s expansion in the South China Sea at this time?
All these demands with resources supposedly at the lowest levels the military has seen in 50 years.
> Thanks. I recall a startling tale of the first time Fife heard of Barack Obama—18 years ago in Russia.
Obama’s story all sounds like a combination of The Manchurian Candidate, Rosemary’s Baby, The Omen, and a Cheech & Chong movie all rolled into one....
[and 85-90% of the world's Muslims are Sunni, IOW, Shiites kill twice as many per capita]
If the objective is ‘regime change’, invasion should obviouly be the last option. The U.S. doesn’t need to invade. Actually the non invasion method (s) could have been used 35 yrs ago.
Also the article didn’t mention a couple of other obstacles to invasion....
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