Even the mess in Iraq didn’t convince them that they weren’t going to get anything using violence, and actually retarded their stated goals. The energy supplies have moved toward Russia and China, and Isreal has new implacable enemies. The area’s balance of power has shifted to being even more anti-US than before. They simply refuse to acknowledge their failures, or change their tactics.
]]>Even the whole Israel/Likud thing is a smokescreen for the real intentions. It’s a case of the USA using Israel as a cover for what they really want. Of course, Israel doesn’t care, so long as they get what they want. 😉
It’s always about the money & control. 🙂
]]>The real puzzle is that the Iranians seem to be one of the few governments that really believes in “peak oil” and is looking beyond it to the future. That is really what the nuclear power thing is all about – life after oil. It is hard for a country that thinks in terms of centuries, Iran and China, to communicate with people who can’t think beyond the next quarter, or election at most.
]]>i figured they’d stick with covertly engineering regime changes in both iran and iraq for awhile longer. oil profiteering ought to be much more profitable if you don’t expend a bunch of resources in full-scale war, but i guess with peak oil approaching [or already past, depending on who you believe] war profiteering is the new black gold.
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Iran is not a place you can just roll over, and the more you press, the harder they resist. It’s not their fault that the Shrubbery decided to make them the most powerful country in the Persian Gulf by taking out Saddam.
]]>If we would really like to see major naval losses before the ground war gets going, yeah, sure, start something with Iran. Those mountains hide a world of hurt, and no one drives if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked.
It’s hard to get through to people that the Iranians don’t think they will win, but history has taught them that they never really lose. If Obama wants to make Ahmadinejad president for life, go ahead and attack Iran, after all we know how well a long term policy of hostility towards Castro worked. 😈
]]>We get PBS News here on one of our stations, and as it happens, they were discussing this. Surprisingly, the unanimous consensus was (essentially) “Can we PLEASE deal with The Taliban & Afghanistan before we start a war with someone else?” The USA will never be able to effectively deal with Al-Qaeda whilst they are protected, supplied and trained by the Taliban, and whilst Pakistan turns a blind eye. And AQ is still the USA’s biggest global threat.
“Stupid is as stupid does!”
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