“Those who buy time in the name of expediency seldom get peace in the bargain.”
What are we to make of President Barack Obama’s latest pronouncements about Iran’s movement toward nuclear bombs? His tough talk might have had some influence on Iran a couple of years ago, when he was instead being kinder and gentler with the world’s leading terrorist-sponsoring nation. Now his tough talk may only influence this year’s election — which may be enough for Obama.
Weren’t WWII and the Russian revolution before it, all part of man’s glorious struggle in the inevitable forward and upward march of progress?
There may have been progress, but certainly not as the instigators and passive enablers envisioned.
His tough talk has little to no bearing on this year’s election. It is going to be won, or lost at the gas station and at the bank.
Are you better off than you were before this man became president?
Bibi ain’t waiting.
Israel has the technology to kill Iran’s nuke now when it isn’t buried.
Once it’s buried (redline is thought to be in a couple of months tops) Israel will be entirely dependent on Obummer for their well being. Only the USA has the artillery to penetrate Iran’s nuke fortress. Maybe not though, who really knows how advanced their nuke program is.
Would you trust Obama with your life if it meant he had to bomb Iran for you? He hasn’t even enacted the sanctions on Iran’s central bank his congress voted for against his wishes.
Blow up Iran’s nuke now, and hit everything attached to the religious fanatics who rule over it.
Note to self:
Find Potassium Iodide pills
Buy two more pistols, sell bolt action rifles
expand water storage
re evaluate food storage situation.
If Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons and then use them as an umbrella for it’s terrorist proxies, a nuclear war in the Middle East will be inevitable.
And before that happens Iran will send terrorists around the Middle East and into Europe and the Americas in numbers never before imagined.
Iran probably has already a functioning weapon, but is buying time to make it deployable. When Iran begins constructing missile silos is the red line….in the mean time any interdiction should be directed to command, control and communications.
Remove the head and the body dies.
Windy Wilson
Shame on you….the bolt action rifle is far from obsolete…on a practical basis.
There is a vast difference between the resources of a nation state in men and material and an individual…..especially in the ability to supply munitions.
Spray and pray is a logistical nightmare….
The ability to treat water is logistically easier than attempting to maintain storage….and infinitely more mobile.
Same with food storage…
The emphasis should be on mobility…a fallout bunker is extremely limiting, conspicuous, and problematic to defend…..security based on cooperation has more merit.
On the Obama-Nation(tm)’s reading list:
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War by Ian Kershaw.
“All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.” Lord Byron
Obambi’s assurances in this regard are about as useful as his “shovel-ready” projects. The only shovel you will need is to cover the casket.
The Obama-Nation(tm) is working on “My Big Fat Greek Tragedy”.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Thomas Sowell has written a good column, typically for him.
Yes, if Britain and France had attacked Germany at any time before September 1939 the result would have been less bad than what happened. An invasion in 1936 would have led to a nasty but short and small war.
My mother and father lived through those times, and eventually all of my male relatives served. My mother said that everyone with an ounce of sense knew what was going to happen. In fact the young people of the day felt that they couldn’t make plans until the war was over. Only the nitwit politicians thought that Hitler could be appeased. And above all, it was the sound of the Nazi party orators, that unforgettable snarl of utter contempt for all human norms, that convinced them.
And now? The countries which beat Nazi Germany are afraid of Iran? The shame!
All I know is that all governments lie about everything all the time to get the results they want politically. As such I can not know the truth about Iran or anything else using their propaganda. Good decisions can not be made unless you have good information. I will defer the decision of whether good men need to die for this to the rest of the experts here.
The key thing to note about Obama is that all his decisions are made with one focus only: Himself.
That’s all. His decisions are two-tiered and both tiers refer to Himself.
There is the ideological – and please, I absolutely totally deny that Obama is an ideological socialist. He is a psychological socialist. His malignant narcissism means that his political decisions must always empower Him and disempower Others. That’s his socialism.
The other tier is his immediate narcissism which means that his focus on control means that he must retain this control. That’s why all he does, since he began his term – is campaign. He doesn’t set policy and programs; his radical socialist gang does that.
Obama will not confront or attack Iran. Why not? Because of his focus on his own power; his re-election. Because any attack, any beligerance to Iran would, in retaliation, drive up gas prices so high that he’d lose the election. Of course, it might stop Iran from its nuclear and imperialist agenda – but heck – what’s more important to Obama? The Middle East or Himself? There’s only one answer to that!
If Jimmah Cahtah had given the Iranians the big slap down in 1979, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Every president since then also has let Iran get away with murder, yes literally murder.
mike
Mr. Sowell has probably nailed it.
‘bama is the Prince of Posture.
You want a pose on pipelines? Here it is.
Sensitivity over charred Korans? How’s this?
Tough talk to the Persians? Snap o’ the fingers.
Truly a man for all seasons.
Iran and Obama
Iran and Israel
Israel and Palestine
are soooooo boring subject for me
people take interest to follow them any more
best thing those group step back off from each other shoes
and let each party they do anything they want without interfer to their job and do not treat their safty and security of their country or region
at least
I guess
people suffer too much over this BS
give them time for heal their heart
No one who’s ever seen a picture of Obama will spend five seconds confusing the twisted little weasel with someone who would back up “tough talk”.
He’s a dink, an existential dink.
It surprises me not at all that Sowell would posit such a cogent, concise and logical argument. But neither does it surprise me that Obama, very much Sowell’s intellectual inferior, would choose to consider his political ass more worthy of being saved than that of the only democracy in the middle east. I’ve said before that Obama is a dangerous man, not only for his actions, but for his inaction as well.
Larry,
Not to worry the TSA won’t let them into the USA
sarc
The one thing that impresses me about Israel is their totally unexpected actions when they finally do decide to strike their enemies. To the linear thinking, a direct strike by Israel on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be the most obvious choice and likely this is a convenient piece of disinformation for the IDF.
Far simpler would be to strike in the US. An “islamofascist” terrorist attack which took out Obozo and Biden would result in Boehner becoming POTUS. 4 “failed” assassination attempts on the individuals above Holder in the US chain of succession would make it appear that the plan of the attack was to make Holder POTUS. This far less risky military act would result in a complete realignment of US foreign policy and might be all that is necessary to make Iran change it’s mind about producing “medical radio-isotopes”. It would be a politically risky act for Israel, but the Israeli’s are quite adept at making it look like other people have performed their assassinations. Also, in this case, a majority of the US population would be likely to forgive this unprecedented intrusion of Israel into US domestic politics and it would also throw the whole democRat party into disarray as they would suddenly need to find a presidential candidate this late in the election cycle. Maybe a group of Saudi “students” are getting ready to do this right now.
Similar judicious applications of force within Iran might be under consideration as it would just take the elimination of a small number of people to destabilize Iran. Perhaps Israel has plans to facilitate a “Persian spring” although such an event would not be friendly to islamofascists. Likely Israeli intelligence knows in microscopic detail the key people to be taken out to create chaos in Iran.
Meanwhile, the public disinformation campaign goes on of musings about how many bunker buster bombs one needs to take out the Iranian nuclear program and how many Israeli air tankers can be used to facilitate strikes against Iran. I expect when the military response does occur it will be something totally unexpected and elegant. It will be more along the lines of the stuxnet virus than nuking all Iranian nuclear sites.