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2010-04-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Gates Says U.S. Lacks Strategy to Curb Iran's Nuclear Drive

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Posted by Steve White 2010-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Gates Says U.S. Lacks ~~Strategy~~ Will to Curb Iran's Nuclear Drive

FIFY.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-18 08:46|| 2010-04-18 08:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Iran and the Mad Mullahs have always had a vision of where Iran and islam is going. They are not going to stray, deviate, or negotiate from that vision--No matter what. If they negotiate in any way, it is simply Taqiyya to buy time as a part of their overall strategy. Their vision is one of domination over others. We'd better have a strategy for coping with Iran or we will have to deal with it big-time later--and the price will be high. The Donk Congress, Hollywood, and the MSM needs to dump the goal of Obama deification and look at the threat.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-18 09:25|| 2010-04-18 09:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Gates Says U.S. Lacks ~~Strategy~~ President with Will to Curb Iran's Nuclear Drive

There you go P2K. It's a sheep leading lions kinda thing.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-04-18 10:21|| 2010-04-18 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Nearly two weeks ago, Mr. Obama, in an interview with The New York Times, was asked about whether he saw a difference between a nuclear-capable Iran and one that had a fully developed weapon. "I'm not going to parse that right now," he said.

Ahhhh...with the wisdom of ~~John Kerry~~ Solomon.

Posted by tu3031 2010-04-18 10:52|| 2010-04-18 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Has anybody seen that old Nostradamus documentary narrated by Orson Welles? I saw it numerous times when I was a kid and have never forgotten the ending which ( as Nostradamus supposedly predicts )actually specifies Iran as hitting the U.S. with a nuke. It was scary then (Welles did a great job) and seeing it now in my lifetime as a possibility is totally surreal. My personal opinion is that Obama and Gates should step aside if they have no plan to protect us. How does the frikkin' Secretary of DEFENSE admit to having no plan to DEFEND us?

Posted by Yo Adrian 2010-04-18 11:01|| 2010-04-18 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 ...How does the frikkin' Secretary of DEFENSE admit to having no plan to DEFEND us?
Posted by: Yo Adrian 2010-04-18 11:01

'Cause he is the eunuch Bambi chose for the position.

Posted by WolfDog 2010-04-18 11:31|| 2010-04-18 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 I think Obama's attitude toward Jacket is like Chamberlain's to Hitler: he knows that Jacket lies, but he doesn't believe that Jacket would lie to him. In that context, I think Obama's plan is predictable.

Posted by Matt 2010-04-18 11:33|| 2010-04-18 11:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Where does Barry's pro-Muslim and anti-Semetic bent come from you ask? Could it possibly be from sitting quietly each Sunday and listening to Jeremiah Wright spew hatred for decades? Could it be from his neighbor and enthusiastic endorser the Louis Farrakhan?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-18 11:43|| 2010-04-18 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 I guess we can reason this out in a circular fashion WolfDog but what does that have to do with a Defense Secretary that has been around long enough to know better?

Posted by yo adrian 2010-04-18 12:57|| 2010-04-18 12:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually the problem is political courage.

The only wya to prevent Iran having nukes now is to strike and take out the ability for them to produce them. The problem with that precise a strike is that it does not take out the cause: the Islamic leadership. So a decapitation strike is needed as well. The problem is that leaves a lot of the machinery in place. So a full devastation of the military capacity of Iran is needed.

So once you do the analysis, you see that the only way to do this in a military manner is to take out the leadership first: a lightning strike which takes down the leadership and the communicatiosn infrastructure nearly instantly, and take down the military capacity to impose any sort of command on the populace, and after that, take out the nuclear production and storage facilities.

The bottom line: No half measures are adequate. The Iranian government and the machinery that maintains it in power must be decapitated and then sufficiently destroyed.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-04-18 14:15|| 2010-04-18 14:15|| Front Page Top

#11 No half measures are adequate.

and in a nutshell that rules out any action by the US at this time.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-04-18 14:54|| 2010-04-18 14:54|| Front Page Top

#12 ShockandAwe II.
It's worked before, let's do it again. The Iranian people will greet this us as um.... friends and be instantly transformed into a paragon of liberal democracy.

Or we could simply seal their coast and make all trade move overland, which would invite a cheap shot, but hey, that's been done before too.

Posted by Shipman 2010-04-18 15:07|| 2010-04-18 15:07|| Front Page Top

#13 but hey, that's been done before too.

Why don't we just go for preemptive surrender and get it over with, Shipman? President Obama the Much Beloved can inform the Israelis they have a choice of leaving or being turned into rivers of blood by text message as he flies to Tehran for his final bow.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-18 16:20|| 2010-04-18 16:20|| Front Page Top

#14 Oldspook nails it but then again you don't need me to point that out.

Posted by Hellfish 2010-04-18 21:08|| 2010-04-18 21:08|| Front Page Top

#15 ION DEBAK > THE "NEW HIZBALLAH" BY SYRIA SPARKS MIDDLE EAST WAR FEARS | SYRIA TURNING HIZBALLAH INTO A REGULAR ARMY [Missle-armed this time = Anti-Air, Anti-Naval, LR BMS, anti-tank/Armor].

HMMMMM, HMMMMM, TANGOS = relabeled as TIAGOS/TIGOS > T-errorist, A-rmed, I-ndependent, G-overnment O-perated; or perhaps the "A" in TANGO should be changed to A-UTONOMOUS???

I chose "TAIGO" to reflect the RISE OF CHINA + CHIN = "ASIAN/ASIA-PACIFIC CENTURY".

* SAME > IRAN CLOSE TO PLUTONIUM-MAKING/PROD CAPACITY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-18 23:20|| 2010-04-18 23:20|| Front Page Top

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