tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post7238752261165957282..comments2023-07-05T11:26:53.498+01:00Comments on A Big Stick and a Small Carrot: An Army of FrothersGarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08188217045700587288noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-58736221636442176162007-01-14T18:13:00.000+00:002007-01-14T18:13:00.000+00:00flyingrodent, agreed. These armchair warriors just...flyingrodent, agreed. These armchair warriors just don't have the faintest idea. I doubt an all out invasion is on the cards, there just aren't enough available troops. The plan be based on air attacks if it's anything. They just don't seem to be able to grasp that the other side might also have a say in the shape of any conflict though.<br /><br />sam, I'd refer you the comments from Colonel Gardiner I quoted in a previous post. I agree that it doesn't make sense but that doesn't mean it won't happen.<br /><br />It's not just leftie moonbats like me who're worried about this. After Bush's speech, <a href="http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2007/cr011107.htm">Republican congressman Ron Paul</a> said:<br /><br />"I am concerned, however, that a contrived Gulf of Tonkin- type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran."<br /><br />If Bush wants to do this, the generals might be able to stop him. But then, he is their commander-in-chief. It'd effectively be mutiny. Respect for the office of the President is deeply ingrained on all members of the the U.S. military.<br /><br />Dot, that may be why some of these guys are so convinced about this. Perhaps they're thinking "We'd do it so they would to".Garryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08188217045700587288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-32588879846335651542007-01-12T23:50:00.000+00:002007-01-12T23:50:00.000+00:00"Iran promotes jihadists of both Sunni and Shiite ..."Iran promotes jihadists of both Sunni and Shiite stripe"<br /><br />Yes, of course it does. That would be like the United States supporting both Iran and Iraq during the 1980s. Oh, wait...septicislehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03369157723084834549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-19335551455699214642007-01-12T22:41:00.000+00:002007-01-12T22:41:00.000+00:00I don't want to allay your paranoia, they still ma...I don't want to allay your paranoia, they still may be out to get you and I don't want to diminish the endurance of your posts, for fear they'll get shorter than my comments but the practicalities are against the USA attacking Iran.<br />The US military is bogged down and near exhausted in Iraq. It could not engage in another war, it's been doing a lot to avoid engagement in Iraq.<br /><br />If the US were to attack Iran in the near future, it would have to annihilate the country from the air. It doesn't have the ordnance to do that. Nor does it have any justification. The American public have had enough of Iraq, they will not stand another war. The rest of the world would outcast the USA.<br /><br />To attack Iran without annihilating it would mean the annihilation of the US forces in Iraq. The US Army can't drive down the roads of Iraq but the Iranian Army could to "liberate" the country from the "Crusaders".<br /><br />At present it must be most gratifying for the "Axis of Evil" countries to watch the US military spend itself in Iraq and watch the US political hierarchy do the same at home.<br /><br />To attack Iran, Bush would have to find a General far madder than himself. It's improbable if not impossible. <br />There'd be a greater likelihood of a coup in the USA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10829781.post-82149001012999610282007-01-12T19:57:00.000+00:002007-01-12T19:57:00.000+00:00I take it these jokers weren't paying attention du...I take it these jokers weren't paying attention during the Iran-Iraq war, but it might be worth noting the human wave attacks and the teenage kids riding their motorbikes over the minefields to clear the way for the Iranian army.<br /><br />That should've sent a clear message - the Iranians aren't worried by the prospect of death, not one little bit. If the Yanks invade, everyone from little sis to old grandpa is going to be queuing up bumper-to-bumper in carbomb traffic jams, itching for a crack at the infidel.<br /><br />Call me a doom-monger if you will, but I reckon an air-attack on Iran will be the most appalling error in American history. An all-out invasion might just be the end of the US as a superpower.<br /><br />Remember those war-games they played before the Iraq war, the one where the entire US naval fleet went to the bottom of the gulf in flames?<br /><br />Praxis is different from theory, I suppose, but I wouldn't want to be out there when the shit hits the fan.flyingrodenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12560266705069504771noreply@blogger.com