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2008-06-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

CSM: How Iran would retaliate if it comes to war

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Posted by gorb 2008-06-24 14:11|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 My take on this article is "duh!". It seems to be an article written by Iranian intelligence to deter Americans from supporting any action against it. Of COURSE we would expect an unconventional response. It is probably the only kind of response Iran could muster. They can't abide by the rules of war and actually confront us with regular military as we would slaughter them wholesale.

The only chance they would have is as "illegal combatants" engaged in criminal acts against civilians and military alike. But since we have now expanded US constitutional protections to illegal combatants abroad, we have just removed one major barrier to their fighting that way.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-24 15:53|| 2008-06-24 15:53|| Front Page Top

#2 one would hope that the mullahs and nutjob would be the very first targets of a surprise attack.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-24 16:10|| 2008-06-24 16:10|| Front Page Top

#3 This reminds me of Edward Luttwak's testimony before Gulf War I. You would have thought we were going up against Wehrmacht II based on the scenarios he laid out.

Probably the worst thing we will have to face when Iran is attacked (note use of passive voice) is EUroscorn, not because of its direct effect but because of the guilt and cowardice it induces in the DoS and MSM. Whatever Iran chooses to do can be absorbed and dealt with at lower cost than allowing them to have the bomb.

I think you really enter the twilight zone if you strike Iran.'

Hitler was right when he said something to the effect of going to war is like walking through a dark room for the first time. If you don't understand that, you really shouldn't be in the war business. If Iran isn't struck, the Twilight Zone will seem like the path we wish we'd taken.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-24 16:17|| 2008-06-24 16:17|| Front Page Top

#4 But since we have now expanded US constitutional protections to illegal combatants abroad, we have just removed one major barrier to their fighting that way.

Perhaps it would change some minds if someone in the Bush administration started citing what is permitted wrt illegal combatants according to the Geneva Conventions.

Posted by gorb 2008-06-24 16:22|| 2008-06-24 16:22|| Front Page Top

#5 BARACK OBAMA's problem here is that even many of the traditionally PRO-DEM MSM Pundits are in favor of the USA, including either a POTUS OBAMA OR POTUS MCCAIN, taking some sort of major mil action agz Iran ASAP lest Islamist Iran acquire nuke weapons. THE ERA OF US-SPECIFIC GEOPOL/MIL "UNILATERALISM" AS PER DUBYA WILL BE OVER ONCE RADICAL ISLAM GOES NUKULAR. + ACKNOWLEDGE WILL CONSTRAIN/HAMPER DUBYA'S SUCCESSOR IN WAGING THE WOT.

IOW, MSM CONVENTIONAL WISDOM > SSSHHHHHHHHHH, RELUCTANTLY RECOGNIZE ITS TO THE DEMS AND POTUS OBAMA'S LT POL ADVANTAGE FOR DUBYA = USA [wid or widout ISRAEL, ALLIES] TO ATTACK IRAN ASAP BEFORE JAN 2009.

E.g. DICK MORRIS + BOB BECKEL > BARACK OBAMA's ME agenda either benefits the TERRORISTS, or in the altern is prone to PRO-NUCLEAR anti-US exploitation by Iran + Militants, i.e. DON'T TRUST IRAN = RADICAL ISLAMISM TO NOT TO GO FOR NUKE WEAPONS + STRATEGIC WEAPONS???

Again, 2008-2012 > "MAKE OR BREAK" BOTH NASCENT US-LED/CENTRIC OWG-NWO, + RADICAL ISLAMISM's JIHAD.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-24 19:44|| 2008-06-24 19:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Ok, dark scenarios. How about one for the Mullahs. TV and satellite video showing American forces racing through liberated Iranian cities with cheering crowds who occasionally duck their heads when a die hard Revolutionary Guard pops one off and is then seen being run down like a cornered fox to be ripped to shreds by the populous or who's dead body is thrown out of a high rise window, passing a mullah hanging from a lamp post, on the way down. I wonder who's nightmare is closer to the real picture [given that the Iranian people have a general idea of the freedoms and liberties and prosperities their neighbors are now enjoying].

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-24 21:08|| 2008-06-24 21:08|| Front Page Top

#7 This is the old standard "Hide in the corner!!! The Iranians will unleash terrorists on us!!!" ploy that was used before the OIF started in Iraq : remember how Saddam was supposed to slather on the chemical weapons, how the PLO was going to be setting off car bombs in Mid-West, etc? This is the only major card that those who would permit Israel and America to suffer nuclear attacks by the mullahs have - to promote a nebulous fear of mass terrorism against the general public, in order for that public to prevent the Administration from stomping the Iranians (in this case) flat.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-06-24 21:28|| 2008-06-24 21:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Further afield, Israel is within range of Iran's Shahab-3 ballistic missiles

ElBaradei also said, quite explicitly, that Iran is able to produce a nuclear weapon in six months to a year. from news sources.

Israel has no choice but to strike Iran.

Posted by one eyed wolf 2008-06-24 23:06|| 2008-06-24 23:06|| Front Page Top

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