Posted on 09/17/2007 4:28:52 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
It’s not that Iran will attack with nukes. I don’t think they will either.
It’s that they’ll be free to run proxy wars without fear of retaliation. Neighboring states won’t dare hit them back for fear of being nuked, even as they’re deluged with Hezbollah rockets or after having their leaders assassinated. Yes, we can manage that, but It’ll be expensive.
Would the General have said the same thing about a nuclear Iraq under Saddam?
They want jobs as media pundits or as politicians.
Maybe the good general is being prudent, maybe even correct.
But if he’s wrong...I suspect he’ll be known as “The New Neville” when
the history books are written.
Assuming we survive an onslaught of nukes handed out by Iran to all their
middle-man agents and books can still be made amidst the rubble.
Wikipedia on the general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abizaid
It will allow Iran to move conventional military forces with impunity using tactical nukes as a deterrent to both our resolve to become involved anywhere nearby and also our ability to do so if we were so inclined.
Any large massing of troops or force would be subject to tactical nuclear fire, as would our Naval forces.
The Gordian knot was never fully solved in Europe, but we countered that force with sizable tactical or theatre nuclear weapons of our own.
To counter Iran, we would have to move a lot of nuclear weapons to hard bases, along with building and deploying many more cruise missile assets.
Are (hillary!) and a democrat controlled congress going to undertake a large nuclear buildup and theatre deployment?
When Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nations General Assembly in October of 2005, he ended his speech with a prayer imploring God to hasten the return of the 12th Imam. Ahmadinejad refers to the return of the 12th Imam, also known as the Mahdi, in almost all his major speeches. In the Islamic faith, the Mahdi is the ultimate savior of mankind. His appearance will usher in an era of Islamic justice and bring about the conversion of the heathen amidst flame and fire. The Mahdi will establish Islam as the global religion and will reign for seven years before bringing about the end of the world. In a speech last November, Ahmadinejad is quoted as saying: "Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi.
Thats true if you have a choice then naturally I wouldn’t want Iran to have nuclear weapons. The thing is the costs to stopping Iran from achieving nuclear weapons could be very large. For example if the warfare with them led ultimately to us needing to occupy them.
And that has to be weighed against the damage they could do and the likelihood of them taking those actions.
BINGO!
Mayhap you are correct. However, when your political leader has spent his entire life buried in the very bowels of islamic fundamentalism, when his entire life is dedicated to the glory of his allah and the rewards he hopes to reap therein, I don’t know?
Pile on top of that his total hatred of Israel … I believe he would nuke Israel if given a chance and the rest of his country (and the world) could just suck hind teat, as it were.
Just my opinion after listening to his rhetoric over the years. I believe that he is just as fanatic in his beliefs as the suicide bombers he encourages and sanctions and would not hesitate to sacrifice all for the glory of his moon god.
Let’s see...32 years since the end of the Vietnam Era and counting. I’ll have lots of beer (and consequently, urine) ready, when the time comes. ...hope that I can still dance then.
no wonder progress was slow while he was in Iraq
Except for those hundreds of thousands or millions of innocents (most likely Ameriacns or Israelis) incinerated by their handiwork, of course.
Abizaid is a member of the fifth column. No exaggeration.
Holy moly. Is this guy lookin’ for a job in a possible Clinton administration?
THIS is the 4-star fool.
I heard that a few months ago, the sentence for some Iranian criminals was to be thrown off a cliff.
That depends on the definition of the word "regime".
Maybe, perhaps we are already living with a nuclear armed Iran.
Do we really know?
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