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2007-02-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

VDH : Given enough small taps, Iran regime will crack

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-19 03:19|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 VDH : Given enough small taps, Iran regime will crack

small 5 megaton taps.

Posted by RD 2007-02-19 07:55|| 2007-02-19 07:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I used to like VDH, but I'm starting to wonder if he's lost touch with reality. The UN is going to do . . . nothing about Iran. The EU "Little 3" is going to do . . . nothing about Iran. The Democrats in Congress will be more than happy to do nothing about Iran, and it looks as though the Bush Administration has chosen to do . . . nothing about Iran. Given this, it's hard to see what's going to prevent the Iranians from developing nuclear weapons. And using them for whatever purposes they so desire.

Posted by Infidel Bob 2007-02-19 08:53|| 2007-02-19 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Every time we face some murderous tyrant, there is always some peanut head who thinks that with a little nudge from that countries coffee house beret wearing beat poets society, said murderous tyrant will just fold up shop.

They neglect to consider that to *become* a murderous tyrant in the first place, one has to be, well, murderous. As in, good at it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-19 08:55|| 2007-02-19 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 The notion left-elites can be encouraged to care about the rights of women or minorities in Iran is a joke.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-19 14:05|| 2007-02-19 14:05|| Front Page Top

#5 VDH, sadly, shares the preposterously ignorant misunderstanding of economics and energy markets that afflicts so many (even, if speeches are to be believed, Dubya). "Collapse the world price of petroleum". Jeezuz. That's idiotic. There isn't the slightest chance that anything remotely feasible the US might do would result in a collapse of the global oil market. And any marginal (yet still difficult and economically very wasteful) decreases in petroleum-intensity of US GDP will have no effect, either.

It's a bizarre thing to see: those who not only resist but very ably debunk the ignorant wishful-thinking of so many clueless types WRT terrorism and national security issues embrace a very silly position on oil markets.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-02-19 14:39|| 2007-02-19 14:39|| Front Page Top

#6 The world oil market is far more prone to collapse than the world oil price. Do you think this may have something to do with our hesitation to deal with Iran?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-19 16:18|| 2007-02-19 16:18|| Front Page Top

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