Iran: More gunboat diplomacy

Watch that "Frontline" doc I posted when you have some time, Lyman, honest. It's neither inflammatory nor partisan, and to your point above illustrates that we actually haven't been talking to Iran when we should have.

Having invaded countries on both sides of them - and after receiving a certain amount of help from them in Afghanistan - we stopped talking to them almost entirely.

 

From the column I linked earlier...

 

http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTIzMGE5NTRiMTJmNjFkYzEzYTcxZDZmYTE0ZmNhNzM=

Of course, people will cite the source, but it's just a different set of biases.

 

I'm drawing a blank on when an Iranian agent committed a terrorist attack on US soil as Frum wrote. Is he referencing the first WTC attack or something?

 

The Frum piece still doesn't offer a plausible rationale for war. It's certainly a stern call for relentless and aggressive diplomacy - which this administration has yet to engage in - but no more.

When did we decide as a country that pre-emptive aggression was the only answer to the world's issues? January 20, 2001?

Simple-minded madness.

 

I know it won't matter, but I lived for 40 years with a couple of thousand nukes aimed at me and never yelled or hid under the bed, so I'm not worried about the military might of a country with an economy smaller than Finland.
And I'm still waiting for the casus belli as regards the US.

 

I guess heaven needed a casus belli.








Because the concept appears dead and buried down here.

 

I look forward to meeting five causi belli on the streets made o' oil gold.

 

Casus belli? We don't need no stinking casus belli!

 

We didn't. The Neocon cultists decided that years ago.
If Bush invades Iran without congressional authorization, he should be removed from power.
I just don't know if it can be done.

 

I'm hoping the opposition from the military will be too much.

 

Invading Iran would make the disastrous 4-year quagmire in Iraq look like a cakewalk. Iran has 3 times the population, at least 3 times the land mass, and about 10 times the military strength that Iraq did in 03.

With our military already stretched and depleted from Iraq/Afgh and our dollar currently plunging to historic lows, could we really be dumb enough to start something like that right now?