A Good News/Bad News Scenario
And because it’s 8:41am on a Friday, let’s start with the good news:
In a somewhat less than effective display of military prowess to mark the anniversary of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War (y’know, the one in which Saddam used chemical weapons against Iran and the Iranians, in turn, used their own children to clear mine-fields), the Iranian air force succeeded in destroying its only AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) aircraft.
The awesomeness, believe it or not, doesn’t stop there.
Because guess what the downed-aircraft proceeded to hit on the ground?
Its impact was cushioned by none other than the mausoleum of the Islamic revolution’s founder, Ruhollah Khomeini, who, let us not forget, was such a charming and spiritually sound guy that he married his wife when she was 13-years old.
But don’t let this farce detract from the growing threat posed by Iran. This sheer ineptitude, after all, is precisely why the mullocracy is so obsessed with acquiring nuclear weapons, as nukes are a force-multiplier like no other.
Between that and this recent news, however, I’d say that Divine retribution has been picking some wonderful targets of late.
Now for the bad news:
Iran has informed the IAEA that it is building a previously undisclosed uranium enrichment plan. Add one more target to the hit-list, boys and girls.
So having dropped any and all preconditions to negotiations, agreed to face-to-face talks and generally been as subservient as possible, this is what President Obama has earned in return.
The choice facing Obama is simple, as it always has been. He can continue his victory through defeat policy of capitulating to odious thugs and dictators the world over, or he can acknowledge the reality that we gain nothing by appeasing such people. They, on the other hand, receive propaganda victories galore, in addition to basking in the warm glow that results from defying the Great Satan.
Iran has made not one concession during six years worth of Western offers/inducements/bribes.
We cannot nice them into line – but we just might be able to threaten them into line.
Cross-posted at The Green Room.
September 25th, 2009 at 09:01
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September 25th, 2009 at 10:57
yeah, not only can’t we nice them into line, we are also thinking about shooting down israeli jets that might bomb their nuke facilities. hillary’s 3 am phone call commercial was right.
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September 25th, 2009 at 11:01
j, yeah, that’s the massive caveat to my post – we might be able to nasty them into line, were it not for Barry’s timidity and Brezinski et al’s stupidity.
September 25th, 2009 at 12:38
At this point Obama has effectively removed every fang this country may have had to “threaten them”. Just his speech at the U.N. this week was enough to unravel any security this country may have worldwide.
And he hasn’t even been in office a year yet. He may have another record to go along with being the first black president. He may be the first president to sink this country in the shortest amount of time.
Dare to dream.
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September 25th, 2009 at 14:35
While I am hardly what you would call a supporter of Iran, I fail to see what type of threat toward them would be of any value. Personally, I’d like to see a SCUD land right up Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denying ass.
I just can’t see anything less than an all out war with them accomplishing our goals. Not that war would actually do that because it would only inflame the Shia in Iraq and then we have to deal with that mess again too.
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September 25th, 2009 at 17:00
Kris – he’s giving it his best shot, that’s for sure.
ithitsthefan – I should have clarified: the threat that I’m thinking of would be delivered with limited air-strikes either side of it, to prove that it’s not just empty words.
Barry is going to put in a very difficult position. As Iran gets closer and closer to acquiring nukes and the threat gets larger and larger, so is pressure going to grow for him to do that which he hates most: use military force.
What will his rabidly anti-war-for-any-reason base think of him, then?