Comments on: George Eliot and the Iranian Bomb

By: M. Report

M. Report — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:57:24 +0000

29 Dr. Bukk Bunkerbusters ?

Too late, he cried !

See Paul of Alexandria, comment 49 in Fire Shower: North Korean tunnelers buried Iranian installations deep.

Word; Taking them out will require invasion, burrowing nukes, or, maybe, sequential Manouverable Re-entry Vehicles with _really_ good IR based terminal guidance; How deep a crater would each of those dig ?

Or, the Assassination Droids may be ready in time; Take out the top of the Theocracy, ten heads at a time, until they yield; Call it Operation Grave100.

33 typos_R_us Rational actors ?

Indeed; Apocalyptic Millenialist fanatics who expect to get an upgrade to a Skybox in Paradise if they help touch off Armaggedon will not be swayed by mundane arguments;
The World is a carcass, and they are eager
to leave it. CRazy ? Well, yes. :>

By: Steynian 357 « Free Canuckistan!

Steynian 357 « Free Canuckistan! — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:34:48 +0000

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By: GClarke

GClarke — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:45:03 +0000

Why is Michael Ledeen’s proposal too late? The infiltration which Iran tried into a free Iraq killed a few but did not work. The reverse infiltration, from Iraq to Iran, from freedom into the Heart of Darkness has a lot more chance of working. We know now that if Hitler had come to Russia in 1941 with roses for the Russian peasants instead of the usual knout, he probably would have been greeted as a liberator. What is different now as to Iran. We can liberate Iran without American soldiers but we cannot do it if we do not try and there is little hope of that now until we elect President Ledeen. Faster, Please, Faster, unfortunately, is the new Watchword of the Iranian Manhattan Project.

By: Paul -Indiana

Paul -Indiana — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:26:01 +0000

#25. In that case, the negotiator is the fool.

By: Paul -Indiana

Paul -Indiana — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:50:01 +0000

This war can be fought by pushing a few buttons.

By: J. Rockford

J. Rockford — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:00:45 +0000

For years, Michael Ledeen called for Iranian regime change via non-violent methods. He was ignored by the Bush administration. Who knows why? It could have worked but now it is too late. I thought that Israel would take matters into their own hands before the inauguration. Still, it’s only a matter of time.

By: typos_R_us

typos_R_us — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:53:06 +0000

Whiskey, the problem with MAD is it requires what Henry the K called ‘rational actors’. When one party to MAD is nutty as a Payday bar, MAD won’t work.
Basically, you are saying that the way to stop a suicide bomber is to threaten to kill them! Think about that for a while and get back to me.
The second way to get Iran to stop building nukes is the indirect approach of nuking N. Korea.
The NPT has a clause that states nuclear powers cannot nuke non-nuclear nations. So using nukes on Iran would be a violation of the NPT. Nuking N. Korea wouldn’t be, since they have nukes. Plus we are currently in a state of war against the N. Koreans. A War that has already been authorized by the UN, so no violation of any treaties there.
Iran is building nukes because the MDM understand that they are at war with America, even if America hasn’t figured it out yet. They see the USA as a bunch of cowards and having nuclear weapons as a shield from our conventional weapons, which Muslims see as magic.
Show them that having nukes will attract our ire instead of deflecting it and then they will have a reason to stop building nukes.
Right now the MDM have no reason to stop building nukes and several reasons to continue. A couple hundred kilotons of sunshine at the Nork’s reactor site would give the MDM a real good reason to rethink their goals and methods. Not to mention getting Kim Il’s attention.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:07:19 +0000

You ask who will fight this war. Here I am, send me! For some reason, the Navy doesn’t want me, but if they need men to fight, I’ll happily throw on a uniform and go into battle; they need only give me permission.

By: myth buster

myth buster — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:39:39 +0000

Sure you can chipper- it’s called an ultimatum. You offer nothing except peace, and you demand everything under pain of annihilation. They take it or leave it.

By: Malek Towghi

Malek Towghi — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:10:53 +0000

As a Baloch American citizen, what worries me most is the danger that Iran and Pakistan as a last resort will use their Islamic nukes against my homeland, Balochistan divided between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan; and against our ethnic cousins, the Kurds, whose country is occupied by Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. Iraq, Turkey and Syria will be ‘glad’ to ‘borrow’ from or allow Iran to use the nukes or any other lethal weapons against their ‘common enemy’, the Kurds.

The Baloch and Kurdish desire for freedom and unification will never die. The tyrannical Islamic mentality of the ruling classes in Muslim countries will never change. As they have done throughout the history, they will use any means to eliminate those who challenge their rule.

The Bengalis of East Pakistan now Bangladesh were fortunate that Islamabad did not possess the nukes in the early 1970s. Those familiar with Muslim mentality know well that as a last resort Pakistan would have used them against Bangladesh. I am sure that my People, the Baloch, as well as our ethnic cousins, the Kurds, will be the first victims of the Islamic nukes of Iran and Pakistan before they become a catastrophe for the whole civilized world.

By the way, and for several reasons, a united and Free Kurdistan & a united and Free Balochistan are likely to become the most sincere and dependable friends and allies of the civilized world as Israel is … obviously, if the Kurds and the Balochs reach their goal with some help from us. The civililized world including my country, the USA, Israel and India will be helping the Balochs and the Kurds if they denuclearize Pakitan and stand firm against the nuclearization of Iran. This will enhance the disintegration of these two non-reformable and artificial countries.

Given the strategic position and the vast natural resources of particularly a united and free Balochistan with a comparatively small but secular-minded and sincerely friendly population, we will not need to spend billions continuously to keep a disingenuous Islamabad with us –, and to grovel before Tehran. Also, a united, free and friendly Balochistan is the key to the solution of our problems in Afghanistan and Central Asia as well as in Iran. A free Balochistan will enhance the disintegration of remaining Pakistan. Good riddance!

Similarly, a united, free and friendly Kurdistan with a secular-minded nation will discourage the Arab world, remaining Turkey and remaining Iran to try to blackmail us from time to time.

So, united and free Kurdistan and Balochistan are the key to the solution of our problems in the region.

Malek Towghi, Ph.D. (in History of International Relations),
Liaison, Baloch Human Rights International (USA)