"A Dose of Reality for the Realists" - frightening stuff... will neocons never learn?

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The Iranians, in Dr. Kissinger's words, believe that they are "in a position to challenge the entire world order." They need to be persuaded otherwise, and that cannot be accomplished by negotiations, concessions, or even visits from Kofi Annan. The Iranians, as shown by every foul speech from Ahmadinejad, every threatening missile launch, every advanced, Iranian-designed bomb that goes off in Iraq, believe they can play in the big leagues.

Well - we can play, too. We're not proposing, needless to say, invasion and occupation, which, as Iraq has demonstrated can have its drawbacks. We're talking about a no-holds-barred attack by air, naval, and Special Forces assets, something along the lines outlined by Arthur Herman in his superb Commentary piece, "Getting Serious About Iran". A strike that will leave Iran with no navy, no air force, no serious nuclear potential, and an army reduced to pre-20th century armaments and mobility. An Iran roughly in the same state as Saddam Hussein's Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War.

This is the style of warfare for which the U.S. has no equal in history - cutting an opponent off at the knees, leaving him thoroughly incapacitated and utterly shamed, but with the means of national survival intact.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20061123/cm_rcp/a_dose_of_reality_for_the_real

students and their families who AREN'T hardliners, that this administration turned its back on and "cut off at the knees" by spouting frightening, divisive rhetoric such as "Axis of Evil" that gave the hard-liners the opportunity to take control of the government once again.

God, these people are evil.

Could we take out Iran's military? Possibly....but at what price? Do they not consider the rest of the world's reaction to such an act of unilateral aggression by the US? We can be isolated and our sources of oil can be chocked off. The world could stop buying our debt and trading with us entirely. We'd be the new Nazi's. And there's no guarantee that our Navy wouldn't suffer a horrible defeat in the Persian Gulf.

I hope saner heads in our government and military understand the situation a helluva lot better than these people with the cartoon perspective about the world.