Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border, page 2

Originally posted by Kristol n Stauss
Use your heads,

...

They watched as Iraq was destroyed, and they learnt how it was destroyed.

You clearly think little of them. As if they are going to do all this, watch you prepare to do what you did to Iraq, and not prepare and ready themselves to STOP it.

These people invented Algebra.
Yet, you think they are stupid enough to simply allow themselves to be destroyed in a matter of hours?

Your under-estimating, the same way you under-estimated Iraqi's.

No offense is intended or implied here Kristol, but it hasn't been that many years ago that the Irani were involved in a decade long war with the backward Iraqi, losing probably hundreds of thousands of men and the Universe knows how much equipment ... All in an unsuccessful attempt to wipe out a people that they thought were sub-human.

The problem as I see it, is that when anyone over there gets their dandruff up, it has to be a blood lust thing. It has to be a Gotterdamerung (bad German spelling), a twilight of the Gods with all the attendant drama, death, and dismemberment.

If GW is that unhinged (and I'm not necessarily denying that possibility), and they know it, and they know that Israel and a few others are simply chomping at the bit to have a go at them ... And still they proceed, then yes ... That borders on stupid. Enraging a rabid dog while it is in striking distance and fully capable simply rattles my reality.

It will be ugly. I think, much like the Iraqis originally figured, that the Irani believe we will go charging in, and it will be a war with rivers of blood, frying American entrails on electric fences and that other nonsense that Baghdad Bob spewed in the early days of the war. That is, essentially, what they long for. At the risk of sounding bigoted (and I certainly am not) it almost sounds to me that all out war, and copious blood spilling, is the method of choice for settling things in the Middle East.

I don't want to see it happen anymore than anyone else does, and probably less than most (I have/had a number of good friends over there prior to the abdication of the Shah, and assume many of them are still alive and kicking) ... But I suspect that if Dub does go in, he won't go in in anyway that will give the Irani military a fighting chance.

As a final thought, and apropos of absolutely nothing being discussed here, I have often thought that Baghdad Bob should have suffered no castigation for doing his job so well, and instead, probably should have been offered a job on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, or Fox News.

edited to add final thought about Baghdad Bob, the wunderkind of news and propoganda reporting.

[edit on 28-3-2007 by sigung86]