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2006-05-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

How to Stop Iran (Without Firing a Shot), sez WSJ editorial

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2006-05-16 14:16|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm a thinken Asteriods...

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-16 14:55|| 2006-05-16 14:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Then it is just Allen's will!

Posted by 3dc 2006-05-16 14:56|| 2006-05-16 14:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Everything else being equal, I think I prefer shooting. It sends a message that we should be sending.

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-05-16 15:17|| 2006-05-16 15:17|| Front Page Top

#4 I wish we could remedy the Moolahs without losing blood and treasure, but it is quite simple:

AhMad wants nuke weapons to wipe out Israel, et al.

We can't let him have it.

So, do onto Irant before they do onto us.

Posted by Captain America 2006-05-16 17:01|| 2006-05-16 17:01|| Front Page Top

#5 A gas quarantine may require the naval blockade of Iranian ports, which is legally tantamount to an act of war. Not a problem, says Mr. Andrews: "I think the development of a nuclear weapon in violation of an international treaty is an act of war, too."

AAAAHAHAHA! Give that man a cluebat! Also, telling another member of the UN that you are gonna wipe them off the map is an act of war, funding terrorists against said nation is an act of war, but who is counting since it is against the JOOOOOOs?

Posted by DarthVader 2006-05-16 17:43|| 2006-05-16 17:43|| Front Page Top

#6 We have a friggin SOCOM ARMY. Let's turn them loose with orders to wreak havoc throughout Iran. Turn off their electricity, water, gasoline, everything. Scare the piss out of them. Bombs everywhere, but blowing up things, not people.

Include a massive propaganda campaign from a brand-new "secular organization" that calls for killing every Imam and Mullah in the country.

Base it on the secret societies. The Carbonari in Italy, or the Young Turks. Of course it doesn't really exist, but what you try to do is convince the government that no only does it exist, but that it is so powerful that it is just about to overthrow the government and cut off all of their heads.

Make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Make it attractive to the young, but like a forbidden fruit. Since nobody belongs to it, nobody will admit to belonging to it, or be able to say anything about it, even under torture. The secret police will nail the few lying braggarts, who will implicate all sorts of innocent people in hopes of saving their own asses. It will snowball.

Ideally, many of the young people in Iran will *want* to belong to it. So that when and if the government is overthrown, it will become the new government. These people will actually be expats who are in on the gag, and ready to return to Iran in glory to be greeted with hundreds of thousands who want to join their secular movement.

No American niceties about allowing the Mullahs a place at the new Iranian government table. Allow the new government to drive them back into their rat holes, and shame them out of politics for generations. No government money for religion, and madrassas being strictly controlled.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-16 18:09|| 2006-05-16 18:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Agreed. Enough of this negotiating nonsense. It's pointless to negotiate with people you can't trust to uphold their end of a deal, and Iran hid their nuclear program for 18 years. Stop enrichment with bombs -- now.

Posted by Darrell 2006-05-16 21:48|| 2006-05-16 21:48|| Front Page Top

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