GHook93
Aristotle
- Apr 22, 2007
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I am not a fan of Pat Buchanan, he is an antisemite and borderline Nazi supporter (or apologist). Yet he is dead on when discussing Iran. Iran is a paper dragon. They would get their butts kicked by Israel much less America. We wouldn't need to invade them to destroy their navy, military institutions, missile sites, nuclear sites, air force and bring their economy to their knees.
A ground attack would be a different story, but missile attack, air craft and drone strikes and a naval blockade would work.
But in the end it's unnecessary for the reason Pat describe. I am very against war with Iran and I'm a Zionist.
A ground attack would be a different story, but missile attack, air craft and drone strikes and a naval blockade would work.
But in the end it's unnecessary for the reason Pat describe. I am very against war with Iran and I'm a Zionist.
Is Iran the Fourth Reich? - Pat Buchanan - Page 1
Iran, we are told, is the most dangerous enemy America faces.
But is this true?
Depending on one's source, Iran's economy is 2 to 4 percent of ours. After oil and gas, its big exports appear to be caviar, carpets and pistachio nuts. Inflation is unbridled and Iran's currency is plummeting.
Here is the New York Times last month:
"Rouhani's aides describe Iran's economic situation as the worst in decades. ... The signs of woe abound.
"Lacking money, Iran's national soccer team scrapped a training trip to Portugal. Teachers in Tehran nervously awaited their wages, which were inexplicably delayed by more than a week. Officials warned recently that food and medicine imports have stalled for three weeks because of a lack of foreign currency."
Should Iran start a war, the sinking of its coastal navy would be a few days' work for the Fifth Fleet. Its air force of U.S. Phantoms dating to the Shah and few dozen MiGs dating to the early 1990s would provide a turkey shoot for Top Gun applicants.
In 30 days, the United States could destroy its airfields, missile sites and nuclear facilities, and impose an air and naval blockade that would reduce Iran to destitution. And Iran is not only isolated economically.
She is a Shia nation in a Muslim world 90 percent Sunni, a Persian nation on the edge of a sea of 320 million Arabs. Kurds, Azeris, Arabs and Baluch make up close to half of Iran's population. War with America could tear Iran apart.
Why then would Tehran want a war -- and with a superpower?
Answer: It doesn't. Since the 1979 revolution, Iran has attacked no nation and gone to war once -- to defend herself against Saddam Hussein's aggression that had the backing of the United States.
Last year, Iran's departing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who frightened so many, made a simple logical point about Iran's supposed bomb program:
"Let's even imagine that we have an atomic weapon, a nuclear weapon. What would we do with it? What intelligent person would fight 5,000 American bombs with one bomb?"
The New York Times reports Monday, "American intelligence experts believe Iran is still many months if not years away from having such a weapon." Time to clear this up.
Has Iran made the decision to build an atom bomb? Does Iran even have all the ingredients for a bomb? If Iran made a decision to build a bomb would we know about it? And how long would it take for Iran to build and test a nuclear device?
Obama is being urged not to meet with Rouhani, as the man has a checkered past. Yet U.S. presidents met three times with Stalin, three with the Butcher of Budapest, once with Chairman Mao.