Comments on: Iran’s Rhineland Moment http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Canucklehead http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142934 Canucklehead Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:59:16 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142934 Well, you target their nuclear sites and physically take the some of the oilfields to pay for Iran's transgressions. You free those areas in Iran that border Iraq. You move part way into Iran and then set-up a defensive perimeter. You discuss from a position of strength and work with dissident groups within Iran. Within a very short while, the Iranian leadership would need to do something militarily rather than using suicide bombers. After an appropriate period of time, you take more territory and slowly digest Iran until it becomes a democracy and friend of the US. By taking chunks of Iran, the fence sitters can sit on the fence. This is the way to cook a frog. Slowly turn up the heat. If you try to put a frog in very hot water, he simply will jump out. Well, you target their nuclear sites and physically take the some of the oilfields to pay for Iran’s transgressions. You free those areas in Iran that border Iraq. You move part way into Iran and then set-up a defensive perimeter. You discuss from a position of strength and work with dissident groups within Iran. Within a very short while, the Iranian leadership would need to do something militarily rather than using suicide bombers. After an appropriate period of time, you take more territory and slowly digest Iran until it becomes a democracy and friend of the US.

By taking chunks of Iran, the fence sitters can sit on the fence. This is the way to cook a frog. Slowly turn up the heat. If you try to put a frog in very hot water, he simply will jump out.

]]> By: M. David http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142925 M. David Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:58:35 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142925 It is a preposterous assumption that bombing Iran would stop them from developing a nuclear weapon... if that is their goal, they will do it anyway, and if it is NOT, then bombing them will MAKE it their goal. The United States developed its first nuclear weapons almost two generations ago, WHILE it was engaged in a world war, in full combat mode on three continents, at a time when nobody even knew for certain that the weapons would work. Iran has the advantages of independently developing a technology that is already proven, the use of computers, the ability to purchase any specific technologies that it finds difficult to develop on its own... it is silly to believe that the Persians of 2006, standing on the shoulders of those advantages and more, cannot accomplish what American scientists were able to do 60 years earlier. Anyway, has EVERYONE forgotten that American problems with Iran are rooted in American conduct toward Iran since at least 1953? It is a preposterous assumption that bombing Iran would stop them from developing a nuclear weapon… if that is their goal, they will do it anyway, and if it is NOT, then bombing them will MAKE it their goal. The United States developed its first nuclear weapons almost two generations ago, WHILE it was engaged in a world war, in full combat mode on three continents, at a time when nobody even knew for certain that the weapons would work. Iran has the advantages of independently developing a technology that is already proven, the use of computers, the ability to purchase any specific technologies that it finds difficult to develop on its own… it is silly to believe that the Persians of 2006, standing on the shoulders of those advantages and more, cannot accomplish what American scientists were able to do 60 years earlier. Anyway, has EVERYONE forgotten that American problems with Iran are rooted in American conduct toward Iran since at least 1953?

]]> By: DL http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142889 DL Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:32:20 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142889 Extremely astute post -unfortunately you are right. This is building to be the mother of all "I told you so's" and we lack the character and determination, thanks to years of sensitivity training by the left, to do what is necessary. History is being played out before our very eyes and, to not learn its hard lessons is to repeat them. Who will save us, when the envious world so hates us for our successes, as it shows their lack of success. Extremely astute post -unfortunately you are right. This is building to be the mother of all “I told you so’s” and we lack the character and determination, thanks to years of sensitivity training by the left, to do what is necessary. History is being played out before our very eyes and, to not learn its hard lessons is to repeat them. Who will save us, when the envious world so hates us for our successes, as it shows their lack of success.

]]> By: Mike H. http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142864 Mike H. Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:31:54 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142864 How does one negotiate with an entity that refuses to negotiate? Their aim is fixed on a nuclear weapon and nothing else. How does one negotiate with an entity that refuses to negotiate? Their aim is fixed on a nuclear weapon and nothing else.

]]> By: Richie http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142751 Richie Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:09:37 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2006/04/16/irans-rhineland-moment/#comment-142751 tick, tick, tick, ... tick, tick, tick, …

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