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2006-05-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2006-05-11 18:40|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 That's why I keep saying that Iran should be partitioned. Nothing else will prevent a unified Iran from achieving what the man on the street wants: a nuclear weapon.

Only when Iran is reduced to just Persia will some balance return to the region.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-11 19:53|| 2006-05-11 19:53|| Front Page Top

#2 It would sure benefit the whole world if the MMs were toppled from power. The middle east could really take off. Only problem is that some other nutcase would take over the helm.

With the hard core Turbans in charge along with their apprat the change will be nothing if not bloody.

Posted by RD 2006-05-11 19:58|| 2006-05-11 19:58|| Front Page Top

#3 gasoline won't go away if Iran is too crippled to receive it..."fungible" anyone?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-11 20:02|| 2006-05-11 20:02|| Front Page Top

#4 There is one word that describes this Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline idea: DUMB

You only need to read Pak newspapers to understand why. It is primarily seen as providing "leverage".

leverage.. as in "give us Kashmir or give us Junagadh or give us Hyderabad or we'll cut off the supply".

Indian industry gets reliant on this gas and then pressures the Indian government the next time there is a Pak sponsored terror attack.

So the pipeline will constrain any Indian response to terror.

The other problem is the transit fees- 600 million dollars by some accounts.

This is not 600 million going into the treasury of say Jamaica. It is 600 million into the Pak treasury. That means it will be used for Jihad.

So the Jihad in India becomes self financing. India directly funds the terror against it.

Then you have the tribals - the bugtis and mazaris who just love to blow up pipelines.

Zero energy security.

Then you have Iran, which does not honor agreements - it now wants to renegotiate the LNG contracts it made with India.

Iran refuses to provide "rich" gas - which India desires because it can be used as feedstock for plastic manufacturing etc. Iran wants to supply gas fit only for thermal power plants.

DUMB

Posted by john 2006-05-11 20:17|| 2006-05-11 20:17|| Front Page Top

#5 agreed, John. Why would they allow it, much less encourage it? Perhaps we can route US oil wells in the Gulf through Cuba before it reaches our shores...just about as dumb

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-11 21:08|| 2006-05-11 21:08|| Front Page Top

#6 The more I see the MMs making crazy through their Adminijacket mouthpiece, the more that I marvel at their vulnerability to be toppled and become lamp post festoons.

If Iranian crude stops flowing through sanctions, then the price goes up and everyone adjusts for a while. Then Reliance Industries, Ltd. over in India will have to find another source of crude feedstock for their refineries to replace M2C (Mad Mullah Crude). The MMs lose their low cost gasoline "soma" that keeps the masses at bay and they go apesh*t.

The Iranian Mullocracy is a deck of cards waiting to come down. But it will require our will to make it happen.

John---I agree with your assessment of a Pak pipeline from Iran to India. It will be nothing but a big baksheeh hole. Hell, it probably will be 1000 psi or so at the beginning, and by the time it gets to India, it will be 100 psi swamp gas. Talk about India outsourcing their energy security to the Paks! The whole idea is beyond stupid. But this is the ME, so it is SOP.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-05-11 22:05|| 2006-05-11 22:05|| Front Page Top

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