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2007-10-17 Terror Networks

How Vladimir Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Islamic Bombski

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-17 08:13|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Muslim outrage combined with growing Slavic nationalism is an incendiary mixture

There is an understatement.

Posted by Unutle McGurque8861 2007-10-17 09:29|| 2007-10-17 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Putin is doing the right thing by Russia - setting one adversary against another - Iran vs the US. The benefits to Russia if a confrontation ensues - (1) Russia will have gotten multi-billion dollar revenues from arms sales to Iran, (2) its latest weaponry will have gotten a good workout from American equipment, and feedback for future improvements, (3) Iran will be hobbled as a power for years, if not decades, (4) oil prices will skyrocket, for at least a few months, if not years, as Iranian output crashes to nothing and (5) the (hopefully negative - from Putin's perspective) results of a US attack on Iran will turn Americans against foreign interventions for a good long while. (Of course, if Uncle Sam doesn't attack the Iranians, then Putin has built up a strong and aggressive neighbor on its southern periphery). Still, setting one barbarian against another is an ancient strategic precept. Putin may seem to be favoring the Iranians irrationally, but he is in fact setting them up to fight Uncle Sam. If Ahmedinejad doesn't know this, he's dimmer than he looks.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-10-17 14:34|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-10-17 14:34|| Front Page Top

#3 I said almost the exact same thing on another forum. As an American I don't particularly like Putin's plan but it's very logical. You forget one additional thing is that (6) Iran will not consider Moscow as a target.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-17 14:43|| 2007-10-17 14:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Wait! There is only 1 country with the Islamic Bomb, and that is Pakistan, Bush's #1 pseudo-ally in his phony GWOT.

By playing the Islamic Card, Bush handed Putin militarists a pretext to do the same. And now Condi is vomiting for a Hamas based Pale-terror state, while Russia's lean to Iran/Hizbollah suggests a return to Cold War madness. Please don't insult your own intelligence by opining that this couldn't have been prevented.

Posted by Woodrow Flique2473 2007-10-17 15:40|| 2007-10-17 15:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Russia giving Iran the bomb would be like Stalin giving the bomb to Hitler. It's not going to slow them down, it just gives them one more BIG tool in their quest for a global caliphate. Russia, being right next door, with a large Muslim population is only going to find that they have fed the monster at their door a big helping of steroids.

Posted by Unutle McGurque8861 2007-10-17 16:00|| 2007-10-17 16:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Woodrow: By playing the Islamic Card, Bush handed Putin militarists a pretext to do the same.

This is kinda silly. The Pakis got the bomb before Bush came to power. Whatever Uncle Sam does, the Pakis aren't going to roll back their bomb. And sanctions aren't going to make Pakistanis reform any more than it made the pre- or post-9/11 Taliban in Afghanistan reform. The only thing that will make Pakistan less radical is the mass killing of the entire population. And we're not about to do that. Not without the nuclear destruction of an American city.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-10-17 16:05|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-10-17 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Agree wid #2 - PUTIN is not worried about Iran becuz the Iranians know Russia [nor China] will unilater tolerate Radical Iran = Radical Islamism having high-yield or suffic yield Nuke-WMD weapons capable of destroying Russ-Chin cities. COLD WAR > USSR under Brezhnev overtly threatened to take over minima 1/2 of Iran + later 1/2 of Lebanon, etc. iff a US-USSR conflict ocurred over these nations vv external intervention in local politix. TMK, POST-USSR/COLD WAR THIS OPTION HAS NEVER BEEN CHANGED OR DROPPED UNDER YELTSIN OR PUTIN. COMMIE-SOCS WORKING WID JIHADIST-ISLAMIST > BRINGING DOWN POST-COLD WAR HYPERPOWER AMERICA REMAINS THEIR COMMON FOCII + COLLUSORY OBJECTIVE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-17 19:46|| 2007-10-17 19:46|| Front Page Top

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