HA HA HA! Iran is a threat to my armpit and that's about it!

[Adrian II]

I'm going by the MEMRI translation.

Which goes to show that you are headless indeed.

Most of the American bravado in this thread reflects some deep insecurity about the need or wisdom to engage in yet another intractable, extremely costly local war over a bunch of intelligence mistakes or lies.

[Don Corleone]

Which goes to show that you are headless indeed.

Most of the American bravado in this thread reflects some deep insecurity about the need or wisdom to engage in yet another intractable, extremely costly local war over a bunch of intelligence mistakes or lies.

Would you be including me in this group, because if so, I'm not communicating my views very well at all. I don't feel much bravado, I have a creeping sense of doom that nuclear war is about 6 years away.

I know Ajay has played foot loose and fancy free with "Did I threaten them, or didn't I", but do you really think all his statements are more a matter of predicting a self-inflicted implosion within the Israeli government? I'm seriously asking, not making a point here.

I know our media seizes on anything he says and sexes it up some. And I do notice a lot of parallels to the sort of press Iran gets now and the press Iraq was getting in the Fall of 2002. But I also know Iran has been getting it for a long while, and thus far, it hasn't come to much.

Do you think our government (and the Brits, and the Israelis, and truth be told, yours, to a lesser extent) are pulling a 'Polish Invasion' on Iran?

For the record, I DO understand Iran's desire to join the nuclear club, and I wouldn't deny it to them. It would in many ways be a great stabalizer to have a nuclear power in the Mideast besides Israel, but even if it wasn't pragmatic for me, as a sovereign nation, self defense is their right. But I am deeply afraid that the Iranians would actually release an albeit small but fusible device to Hizbollah or Hamas, probably just enough to get the world's attention, but not cause any real disasters, directly. But then what?

[Adrian II]

[..] do you really think all his statements are more a matter of predicting a self-inflicted implosion within the Israeli government?

Do you really think that your own President believes that a "war on terrorism" can ever be won? I guess we will never know the answer to such questions.

But I am deeply afraid that the Iranians would actually release an albeit small but fusible device to Hizbollah or Hamas, probably just enough to get the world's attention, but not cause any real disasters, directly. But then what?

For comparison, look at Syria.

Syria has the military capacity to destroy the entire Israeli population through chemical means, specifically chemically loaded missiles. It has had this capacity for at least two decades now. Yet not a single capsule of poison gas has ever been released by any of Syria's terrorist connections.

Why do you think that is?