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Originally posted by mayabong
reply to post by nenothtu
Yes a CIA backed coup isn't a form of aggression, only the response to it.
Smart man you are.
Originally posted by mishigas
As has been stated here many times. Iran conducts warfare by proxy, via Hezbollah, etc.
This is a bogus thread, meant to stir up the flames between the west and Iran. Nothing more.
Originally posted by 547000
You don't have to physically fight to attack and destroy people. For example, you can financially support people who hate your target.
Originally posted by thejlxc
Originally posted by 547000
You don't have to physically fight to attack and destroy people. For example, you can financially support people who hate your target.
That's the CIA.
Originally posted by thejlxc
reply to post by 547000
Absolutely, I just wanted to cut off the rearing head of the "They haven't declared war, they use agents and money" defense of the War on Iran, right off the bat. It's ridiculous.
Despite what is happening before its very eyes, the Obama administration and other Western governments remain set on negotiating with Iran. This betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of Iran’s aims.
In the administration’s defense, however, the West has never understood Iran, nor Iran the West. In fact, our mutual 2,500-year track record since Persian civilization first encountered the West is one of nearly unrelenting conflict. History never presents a clear roadmap of the future, and its lessons are often clouded in mist. Still, policymakers ignore history at great peril. For even the most enlightened persons still view the world though historical and cultural prisms established centuries ago. Today, the West is pulling out all the stops in hopes of engaging Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions and enter into a lasting peace.
Unfortunately, two and a half millennia of history demonstrate that the prospects for a resolution short of conflict or Western surrender are bleak. When Iran, then called Persia, first sent an army to conquer the West 2,500 years ago, it was met by merely 10,000 hoplites, most of them Athenian. Sent by the Persian king, Darius, to extinguish an infant Western Civilization, the Persians outnumbered the Athenians by as much as five or six to one. Miraculously, the Athenians won the day at Marathon, saving not only their own city, but also the ideas of democracy, freedom, and open markets, which have so long underpinned what it means to be part of the West.
Unfortunately, this first violent clash of civilizations did not end matters. The Persians returned and were again driven back only a decade later, beginning a pattern of East–West conflict that has raged in many incarnations for well over two thousand years...............................cont
Originally posted by Power_Semi
One thing that gets me is that they showed photos on the news of weapons, etc supposedly supplied by Iran to "insurgents" in Iraq - the writing on the crates, etc was ALL in ENGLISH.
Since English is not the natural language of Iran, wouldn't the writing be in Arabic?
It seems very convenient that they've spray painted English words like IRAN on the crates so the folks at home can read it for themselves without it needing translation first.
Propaganda?
Originally posted by moondoggy2
reply to post by ignant
Do you remember the WMD in Iraq? Yeah, I don’t remember them either. Saddam Hussein got his neck stretched for something that DIDN’T exist…. And, even if there were weapons of mass destruction, or chemical weapons, they were provided to Iraq by The United States.
Now, the American, Canadian, British, and French governments are trying to brainwash us again, into believing that Iran is on the cusp of developing their own nuclear bombs. Where’s the proof? Will it be as convincing as General Powell’s proof for invading Iraq? If it is, I would suggest getting a 3rd party to investigate.
THEY want to create a NEW war, for more of our men and women to go, and die. Why? Is Iran threatening to take over the world? Or even Northern Africa? No. That’s what Israel and The United States are doing. Conquering nation after nation. You’re just convinced they are quiet revolutions. Remember Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, and Libya?
One thing that gets me is that they showed photos on the news of weapons, etc supposedly supplied by Iran to "insurgents" in Iraq - the writing on the crates, etc was ALL in ENGLISH.
Since English is not the natural language of Iran, wouldn't the writing be in Arabic?
Originally posted by moondoggy2
reply to post by ignant
. Why? Is Iran threatening to take over the world? Or even Northern Africa? No.
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
v Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
vii Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ix 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 2. Iran’s Worldview and Strategic Aspirations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3 3. Iran as a Nuclear Weapons State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
9 Scenario 1: Iran pressures Gulf states to reduce or end the U.S. military presence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11 Scenario 2: Iran establishes a defense partnership with Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13 Scenario 3: Iran extends its nuclear umbrella to encompass Hizballah and Hamas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
15 Scenario 4: Iran and Venezuela expand strategic cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
18 Scenario 5: Iran facilitates terrorist attacks against the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
21 4. U.S. Policy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
23 5. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Easy to be critical my little cupcake.
The report was critical of itself..
But I DARE YOU to give me a higher caliber paper on the subject...
Dice hairs all you want but the fact remains 600k Iraqis dead in our name
and you are trying to defending it...