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Originally posted by tristar
reply to post by Sky watcher
Out of curiosity do you know the name of the area were this battle is going to take place ?
Originally posted by silent thunder
Destroy the entire region. Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria...burn them all to the ground. Pig after pig, cow after cow, villiage after village. Turn the entire region into a flaming nuclear inferno. It is a festering tumor on the face of the planet, an abomination. A weeping sore, an open sewer. Utterly lay waste to it: Both sides, Israeli, Persian, and Arab alike. Tear the whole stinking, filty obscenity from the crust of the earth.
Originally posted by dooper
In 1973, the Soviets had replaced everything, and once again, the Egyptians felt confident, as everything holy indicated a quick victory.
Israel has something their enemies don't.
Cool determination, execution, superior planning, and SMARTS.
Originally posted by Cunnobar the Slayer
Originally posted by dooper
In 1973, the Soviets had replaced everything, and once again, the Egyptians felt confident, as everything holy indicated a quick victory.
Israel has something their enemies don't.
Cool determination, execution, superior planning, and SMARTS.
Negative.
in '73 Egyptian Frogmen were just about to land on Israeli shores for the final push to Victory
That is when Tricky Dick Nixon intervened to stop the war.
Sadat stated that he would not fight Americans and that was that.
With out outside help from America Israel is as good as toast.
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by dooper
There is no love lost between the Persians and the Arabs they are two distinct cultures born of two separate continental land masses and ethnic heritages.
Yet I think what is really to be exploited here are the religious passions involved which might bind otherwise disparate parties to take a semi or fully united response.
I see this as the objective in Iran. Militarily they can at least for a brief period block the strategically narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf even if it’s with the bombed hulks of their Navy, hastily laid mines and other prized and scuttled or destroyed commercial vessels that can be easily targeted at the onset of hostilities.
It took a very long time to clear the Shatt al-Arab Waterway after the war between Iraq and Iran. Conceivably even in a war went quickly and completely bad for the Iranians they could still easily deny passage of the Gulf for realistically a month after clean up began to make it completely safe for Super Oil Tankers again.
Buddy I smell a fortune to be made in oil futures here! Ka-Ching…
Now you know why the Iranians are such good friends and why we really won’t go hard on them if they just do us that one little favor when we “Stage” the battle after making sure all the circumstances to enjoin one have been properly “Staged” first.
Now if it goes down and they do go in, look for it to play out exactly like that. Short war, not much damage, Gulf blocked, heightened tensions in the region calling for greater military spending, buildup and mobilization, rising religious tensions, and for the Russians to step up there presence too. We can always use the Russians to keep a lid on things enough to justify not actually really prosecuting the war to it’s fullest to keep those oil prices up for a while. People still have too much money! The masses have to be impoverished a bit more before the next move on the board.
I am betting that’s just the way it will play.
Originally posted by silent thunder
Destroy the entire region. Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria...burn them all to the ground. Pig after pig, cow after cow, villiage after village. Turn the entire region into a flaming nuclear inferno. It is a festering tumor on the face of the planet, an abomination. A weeping sore, an open sewer. Utterly lay waste to it: Both sides, Israeli, Persian, and Arab alike. Tear the whole stinking, filty obscenity from the crust of the earth.
Originally posted by rakillah
Originally posted by ProtoplasmicTraveler
reply to post by dooper
There is no love lost between the Persians and the Arabs they are two distinct cultures born of two separate continental land masses and ethnic heritages.
Yet I think what is really to be exploited here are the religious passions involved which might bind otherwise disparate parties to take a semi or fully united response.
I see this as the objective in Iran. Militarily they can at least for a brief period block the strategically narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf even if it’s with the bombed hulks of their Navy, hastily laid mines and other prized and scuttled or destroyed commercial vessels that can be easily targeted at the onset of hostilities.
It took a very long time to clear the Shatt al-Arab Waterway after the war between Iraq and Iran. Conceivably even in a war went quickly and completely bad for the Iranians they could still easily deny passage of the Gulf for realistically a month after clean up began to make it completely safe for Super Oil Tankers again.
Buddy I smell a fortune to be made in oil futures here! Ka-Ching…
Now you know why the Iranians are such good friends and why we really won’t go hard on them if they just do us that one little favor when we “Stage” the battle after making sure all the circumstances to enjoin one have been properly “Staged” first.
Now if it goes down and they do go in, look for it to play out exactly like that. Short war, not much damage, Gulf blocked, heightened tensions in the region calling for greater military spending, buildup and mobilization, rising religious tensions, and for the Russians to step up there presence too. We can always use the Russians to keep a lid on things enough to justify not actually really prosecuting the war to it’s fullest to keep those oil prices up for a while. People still have too much money! The masses have to be impoverished a bit more before the next move on the board.
I am betting that’s just the way it will play.
I dont understand how you got as many stars i you have now, but Persians and Arabs are the same people, they are not different, they are from Abraham. You really need to read your history bro.
Originally posted by dooper
reply to post by rakillah
rak, you need to take it up with the Persians and the Arabs.
They'll both tell you that Persians are not of the same blood as Arabs, and Arabs will tell you quite plainly that they are not the same blood as Persians.
Persians, or modern Iranians, think Arabs are dumbasses. They hate Arabs, but they have no problem sending Arab Muslims rockets and munitions to fight Israelis, representative of a Jewish nation.
I think you have confused the shared bloodline of Abraham, which would be shared by both Arabs and Jews.