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Originally posted by mmiichael
Everyone seems to want to ignore Saudi Arabia.
Guess which country just gave Israel the Green Light to fly over their space.
The US went into Iraq and Afghanistan largely to contain Iran For better or worse the West has decided the Saudis have the upper hand. The threats to Israel are more a provocation of the US than a desire to engage in a direct war. As the hope was Saddam would be overthrown by his own people, the ideal is for an uprising in Iran to topple the Mullahs and Mr A.
Iran has looked at what North Korea gets away with on moving the nuclear issue forward despite reprimands. A bad model - North Korea isn't important. Were Iran to apply logical self-preservation they'd de-escalate the tension. But they do the opposite. Meaning they're running on emotion and religious fervour rather than common sense.
The way most of the world, even Russia sees the situation "They're asking for it."
Theocracies make for terrible governments and disastrous foreign policies.
Hope none of this comes to pass.
Mike
[edit on 21-9-2009 by mmiichael]
Originally posted by dooper
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Don't forget, Proto, while we're cleaning up - we gas the Congress and White House, hang all the lawyers (that will take care of the ACLU as well), banish all ACORN workers and volunteers, reinstate the Tenth Amendment, cut the tongue out of that whining bitch that pitches our local car dealership, and in general, any other pains in the ass.
Guess that would include the two of us.
Damn.
Originally posted by stevegmu
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Why would we attack Israel? They are an ally. Iran is not.
There is a broad bipartisan consensus among policymakers that Israel has advanced U.S. interest in the Middle East and beyond.
Israel has successfully prevented victories by radical nationalist movements in Lebanon and Jordan, as well as in Palestine.
Israel has kept Syria, for many years an ally of the Soviet Union, in check.
Israel's air force is predominant throughout the region.
Israel's frequent wars have provided battlefield testing for American arms, often against Soviet weapons.
It has served as a conduit for U.S. arms to regimes and movements too unpopular in the United States for openly granting direct military assistance, such as apartheid South Africa, the Islamic Republic in Iran, the military junta in Guatemala, and the Nicaraguan Contras. Israeli military advisers have assisted the Contras, the Salvadoran junta, and foreign occupation forces in Namibia and Western Sahara.
Israel's intelligence service has assisted the U.S. in intelligence gathering and covert operations.
Israel has missiles capable of reaching as far as the former Soviet Union, it possesses a nuclear arsenal of hundreds of weapons, and it has cooperated with the U.S. military-industrial complex with research and development for new jet fighters and anti-missile defense systems.
Originally posted by stevegmu
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
Oh, of course. All of our problems have been caused by Israel. It seems some can not see through their anti-Semitic fog.