Comments on Real and Unreal Threats from Iran by narciso

Yes, Frog he liked to drink, unlike that other Solon in the Senate, he wasn't thinking about how to please Andropov by spreading the latter's anti nuke propaganda, then again wasn't Marcantonio, the only declared Communist congressman, from your neck of the woods

One of those little factlets that obscured the reason for the invesitigation in Ft. Monmouth, hopefully after the Iranians get
the bomb, we don't have to repeat it

Yes, I hate when that happens, so what is the real value of goods and services in this country, that relates to the value of the money, the farther we move away from that, the more dangerous it becomes

So you do figure why the transition to fiat, money, only took 10,000 posts or so, Casey is the Westmoreland of the picture, a very conventional sort, in a totally unconventional threatre, Shinseki, for
what's worth, would have been mostly the same thiing, despite the great accolades the media gave him,

Probably not, it took him three months just to make the decision, with
the 'harsh Afghan winter' and the loss of our base in Manas, it probably took longer

Yes, and giving the country up to the Taliban is the definition of failure, with long standing consequences we have yet to fathom.

The interesting thing, Lagushka, is that they are regarded as impartial
by many. They repeat what ever the party line is about a rogue state, necessary to 'pick, polarize, isolate' if the fig leaf to a country that has trained tens of thousands of terrorists over the years, it is necessary to pull this shestnut out of the fire. If it becomes necessary
to return State property, as with Elian, they repeat the father's rights
canard, even though there is no such thing under the '76 constitution

No, only Posada in his capacity at DISIP, really was in a position to arrange an assasination of Fidel, notably in Chile in '71. Duncan Campbell who along with Hosenball burned GHCQ in the 70s, and worked with Agee to burn American CIA officials there, no bias there

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKnavarrete.htm

Really now, you're comparing the American soldiers in Afghanistan to the Russians, you ignore that the international community gave both
Oudeh and by extension Abu Mazen, a wide berth after the Munich
revelations in the former's book. I'm being adhonimen, Cockburn has a better writing style then the nudnik that replaced him at the Journal; the Frankfurt School's Thomas Frank, and he was rightly skeptical of global warming, but that's the extent of his gifts

That's what your friends at Counterpunch would have us do, Cockburn reprinted McCain's North Vietnamese iinterrogation from Granma, about a dozen years back, isn't that a violation of the Geneva convention somewhere.

Is it a wonder why Shamir for instance had to take action, against Alois Brunner's network in Cairo, or the Israelis had to roust Eichmann
from his house on Garibaldi street, roughly around the same time. They ultimately had to go after the Black Prince in more direct ways as well

So lets some up, shall we, the current puppet of the Pasdaran in Iran, is a former commando in their security services, who reasonable info suggests started out his career kidnapping American diplomats, then moved on to at least overseeing the 'erasure' of foreign dissidents in say Vienna. His war cabinet, includes a Defense Minister, who ran operations against Americans and other targets in at least two continents. Yet he is given carte blanche, not only to berate one of the only genuine democracies in the region, with the silent acquiescence of the President of the United States, but apparently his nuclear program should go uninpeded despite the protest of one of the neighbor countries

It's not an opinion there are two documents on file, the 1982 deposition in the tick tock case, and the ARDE report commissioned
by the Barbados Govt itself

Just like when they tried those plotters in Puerto Rico, and the plot was dismissed, did Ann Marie Bardach render an apology, or when
the Christic Institute's crazy lawsuit was tried in Miami, more than twenty years ago, did that stop the libel, no, facts don't matter.

Like I told you, before, there is no real proof that he was actually involved in that, in fact he had tipped off the US Govt to a smilar plot three months earlier, but CAP was kind of the Venezuelan version of Obama, interested in empty gestures, plus he had been the subject
of a surveilance by LPC when he had worked for the DISIP

As for my fellow paisan, LPC we notice a certain agenda, both he and
Mohammed Oudeh, fellow men of science, when they lost their homelands, they turned to 'direct action'. One did not directly target
non combatants in a international arena, and one did. One received
the approval of the likes of Peter Jennings and another didn't. One probably helped target American diplomats, well you get the picture

This moral equivalence garbage is really getting insufferable, we aren't the Soviets, their goal in Afghanistan is manifestly different then ours, maybe 50 years earlier as part of an anticolonialism campaign it might have worked, as it did in Azerbaijan, and the Kirghiz (re; Ressi's the Orientalist,) or the last quarter of Reds.
But when Arabian oil reignited the Deobandi engine, that opportunity
was over

Why do you think the number one proponent of renewedconscription is BP's pal, Charlie Rangel, is it nostalgia for his bootcamp, 60 years ago, why did MTV try to suggest it was on the way. The history of American intervention is rather very antagonistic to the draft,

The parallels are closer with the fate of the three major offensives in 1837, 1877, and 1919. The Deobandi can train fanatical fighters, as
Charles Allen's "God's Warriors" can attest. the Buner and Malakand expeditions, nearly 50 years apart, not to mention the role of the
Wahhabis in trying to overturn the Raj, in the mid 1800s, a detail seeming forgotten by the Foreign Office, when Philby came calling

The British experience on the NorthWest Frontier, the French in North Africa, the first time around, The American experience in the Phillipines, if you go way back the Roman republican campaigns in Numantia and Pontus

The Russian comparison is unwarranted, 'tell us o muse' of the tales of Yermolov, the terror of the Caucasus, and Velyaminov, his successor
who nabbed Sheik Shamil twenty years later. When faced with a comparable power, Meiji Japan (the background to Bely's Petersburg) or Wilhemine Germany, they fell apart, they were savage in the Second war, equally so, in the old hunting grounds of the Khyber,
and then back again, in Lermontov's old haunts, even puny Georgia
which I read from Reiss's The Orientalist, one of the oldest Christian kingdoms, was a stalemate for them. So apples to apples, oranges to oranges

We really didn't have much of an experience with conscription, except with the Civil War, and we disliked it so much we didn't take it up for 50 years, came back 20 years later, and then promptly collapsed during Vietnam, most interventions were like the ones mentioned above
or the 19th Century British expeditions into the NorthWest Frontier.
THe French settled Algeria in 17 years, halfway through the time that
Tocqueville wrote his notes on Islam, but after Democracy in America

Hanson is an American Nationalist, not a NeoCon, although there is a certain commonality in the distaste for 'realpolitik' that is often disguised appeasement. We fought brushfires all through out the Americas, from Havana to the Managua up until Wilson, then FDR.
and we had a brief insurgency in Nicaragua was well, which was solved
with a local proxy, which worked about as well as the Shah in the East

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1253796

It's an anecdote he brought up in his own book, yes I find the irony of Awshat a little arch, since you don't have to go to Mogadishu, you can
find it only a few blocks away with the mutawakil (religious police) some of the same sentiment expressed by Qutb were seen with Atta
nearly 50 years later

Is there a touch of irony with Awshat, commenting on this, seeing where they are based. One recalls the premier radicalizing experience
of Qutb was that church social dance in Dry Greeley, Colorado

You know there's a topsy turvy land when it comes to media, for instance, the season finale of NCIS LA centered on a former Savak agent who was after some treasure in order to build nuclear weapons
ans attack Iran, and the Continental version, MI-5, had an organization
out to disable the entire internet, in order to prevent an American attack on Iran, they earlier had an episode where the transfer of nuclear power, to Saudi Arabiawas interrrupted by some evil Mossad agents

Yes, ultimately the Israelis have the ball.

Meaning letting the regime get the bomb, it's kind of letting Skynet develop timetravel, too big a risk, 'pronoun trouble' he says

There's a certain logic to that, but the point is not having to go there, we invaded Afghanistan, in part to prevent another 9/11 level event,
we set up Gitmo, 'aggressive interrogation' protocols, and 'black prisons' for much of the same reason. WE would rather not do this,
you think it was easy for Yoo and company to draft those memorandum

Yes because we seem to spending money like from Caligula's checkbook, trillions of dollars in expenses, but not notably military

We have a populace with the 'attention span of a ferret on double expresso,' a Dennis Millerism, but one should be reminded how long it took the Romans to subdue Mithridates, the Poison King of Pontus

Actually not so surprising considering the historical record, specially in Afghanistan, but what is the real alternative

I use crazy as a metaphor, even then, there was very unlikely that they would have made that connection, or even the more timely
"Executive Decision" that took it an extra step

Ten years ago, if someone told you they would fly passenger jets into the WTC, and kill 3,000 people, you would have thought it was crazy
talk

You want to pretend that Iran's current regime is not reckless enough
to deploy a nuclear weapon through third parties, either in the Levant,
Europe or in the States, that's really hoping against hope

Seeing as they have discovered Hezbollah cells, just across the Mexican border, along with those in the Triple Frontier, it's not really an idle threat

After the background of Ahmadinejad as a Quds force commander in the Vevak Sepah Pasdaran, (the intelligence section of the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard, and the background of colleagues like Vahidi
serving as Liason to Hezbollah, from Beirut to Buenos Aires, do you really want to take that chance