Re: OT: What the hell ever happened to Iraq and Afghanistan?

Ken Smith wrote:

In article <443DBF5C.CFBB69F6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul Hovnanian P.E. <Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

Is this current media/congress feeding frenzy about immigrants really just
a smoke-screen, so that people will quietly forget about the Iraq and
Afghanistan nightmare(s)?

Nobody has forgotten. Ground forces will enter Iran in the west from
Iraq and in the east from Afghanistan.

According to some reports, they have already entered. Its not special ops
folks either.

At this point, I think it is likely that a hot war with Iran will happen.
China has made statements in support of the government of Iran. On their
english language media outlets they have said that Iran has a right to
atomic power and the technology involved. Russia has also made statements
of a similar flavor. I see these as a fairly obvious move to get
preferred acccess to Iran's oil.

They have already been working on pipelines to transport Russian and
Iranian oil east to China.

Neither China nor Russia would appear to be good friends with the US so
they don't mind making trouble so long as it doesn't effect the sales of
their goods in the US.

Any day now I expect to hear that the government of Iran claims the right
and need for atomic weapons to defend its self against the US. They, with
considerable justification, could believe that the US will invade if they
don't have nukes but won't if they do. From their point of view the only
hope is to have them.

Nope. All they need to bring us to our knees is a couple of small boats
armed with missile launchers sitting in the Straights of Hormuz.
Practically all of the middle east oil goes through there.


The US, with some justification, will see this turn of events as a threat
to use the weapons for attacking Israel or US assets. The obvious
responce is to invade before Iran gets the weapons.

With what justification?

We didn't say 'boo' whan North Korea demonstrated its ability to hit one
of our allies, Japan. Israel means a lot less to us economically than
Japan does.

Basically, there are no adults in this school yard to tell them to stop
and play nicely.

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