Friends, it appears that President Trump has decided to role the dice! He's authorized massive, sustained strikes on Iran, with the explicit goal of overthrowing the theocratic regime there. Will it work? Your guess is as good as mine. It's now up the people of Iran to step up to the plate. I hope they will, and I hope some of their patriotic police and military leaders will help them do it. The best case scenario might be a caretaker government led by the son of the former Shah, but honestly almost any new faces in the Iranian government are bound to be an improvement on what we've got. Of course, that's what a lot of Iranians said back in '79 too, and look how that turned out! There's no question that we're taking a huge risk here, but the potential upside is vast, so I'm glad Trump pulled the trigger. You can't promise help and then offer none...
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteWill these strikes be the equivalent (many times over of course), of hitting Bruno Tattaglia at 4 in the morning? I think at least one of our warships should be The U.S.S. Corleone.
Bad jokes aside, had Carter done this in 1979, Trump would not have to spend all this money now.
Once again, let's not get that Shah gang back in Iran. They were bad enough with that SAVAK S*t and whatnot.
No matter what, that special brand of Islam will still be hanging around over Iran, which in itself is a problem, as can be seen by the current regime.
At best they can rename the place Persia, which is what it was called for thousands of years until 1935.
Dr. Waddy and Ray et al from Jack: Well, this has been some day! I've been on the road all day and have been listening to Fox radio.
ReplyDeleteI want to avoid irresponsible hyperbole but it looks to me like we MAY have made a promising start toward a monumental redemption of the Middle East to a region graced by toleration and cooperation between nations with the resources and the Israeli know how , to prosper.
We destroyed the Nazis because we knew they were a demonstrated unspeakably savage regime with the potential to forcefully engulf much of the world. We destroyed 20th century Imperial Japan because they bade to turn the Pacific into their atavistically cruelly ruled fief and perhaps someday threaten America itself. Today, I think, we commenced using our superlative military power, together with that of noble Israel, to do thoroughly justified evisceration of the tyrannical and frantically aggressive Iranian regime and the deliverance of its people from neo medieval authoritarian shackles. As is demonstrably true of a 20th century matured American republic, we are again "the flag that sets you free"while, yes, advancing our national interests . Today's creditable Germany and Japan stand as proof of the historically unprecedented benevolence of America toward its conquered foes.
Islam, an established world religion affording vital spiritual guidance , secular structure and ultimate solace to hundreds of millions , has been much compromised by a rogue faction which has misused it to promote ferocious intolerance toward any people or nation it deems heretic. That faction took Iran over in 1979 and has usurped its national structure and power to direct fanatically bigoted hate toward any one or thing which excites its doctrinally commanded murderous antipathy. It might remind historians of Spanish King Philip II 's deployment of the unspeakably savage Duke of Parma to the rebellious Netherlands in the 16th century and that Duke's only nearly avoided landing in England after the defeat of Philip's Armada. Elizabeth I was right: "in its holds it carries the Inquisition". Similarly, the present Iranian regime would, as it has , further spread its hellish spleen. Its detestable Jew hatred, which for at least one thing among the many for which Naziism has been irresponsibly accused , actually bears plausible comparison with the infernal Nazis, is ample proof of the Iranian regime's perfidy. Well, we may well deliver the world from that profound evil.