Spengler explains how demographics will compel America to attack Iran. I just want to get on record with a prediction that we will be performing airstrikes against Iran within 2006. America is weary of "nation building" in Iraq, but I bet the majority of the public will demand that we prevent Iran from fielding a nuclear weapon.
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I think you're too optimistic. The Democrats are too committed to their anti-war stance. Bush doesn't have the political capital right now to launch military strikes on Iran. We won't have a serious political debate and national referendum on the topic until 2008. Anything we do before then will be purely cosmetic, and probably worse than doing nothing.
In the meantime, Iran will develop a nuke and kill tens or hundreds of thousands of people. Or they'll just hold the nuke to ensure that we don't invade them with ground forces. The Democrats will refuse to see any connection between their froth-at-the-mouth Bush-bashing and a very expensive two-year delay in dealing with Iran. They'll refuse to see it, but it will be obvious. It's obvious now. It was obvious three years ago. The major result of "peace" activism is to make wars longer and bloodier.
A very interesting comment there at the end: The third act of the tragedy on sept. 11. It's true, 9-11 got the US involved in a bigger way than the World really intended. The sleeping Giant moved again. A war against the EU was conducted by proxy in Iraq. The US faced Russian, German and French weapons. And the oil-for-food deals with the EU officials and the UN officials were telling.
I once thought that the 'It's all about oil' cries were non-sense. But the more I look at it, the more I see that oil IS playing a huge role in the conflict. It's not ALL about oil, but it will be about oil more and more as time moves foreward. Right now, the Rad. Muslims are being stoked and manipulated by Iran because it's easy. You don't fight fanatics, you point them.
BB: There never is a chance for "serious political debate" because of the demagoguery on both sides, and if you think there will be less of that in an election year, you're nuts.
Yeah, I'm not looking forward to this.
I wonder how it will still be "all about oil" after the Iranians or any terrorist with a "clean" nuclear bomb turns the middle-east into a boiling wasteland of radiation. Then no one will get the oil. Also, why would Iran bomb Israel with any kind of nuclear device? (practically speaking) If they radiate the land then one of their holy sites will be virtually decimated for years.
If you follow Biblical prophecy in it's general form (i.e. not Hal Lindsey interpreting the news) There will be peace at some point. There will be co-habbitational worship on that soil someday. It could be after the radiation has passed, but I doubt it will get to that point.
I won't place my hope in that temporary peace, as many are these days. The cause of that peace will cost alot on a global level.
What will it take to get that peace? Probably not something you are willing to admit is possible or even exists today. Probably not something you will recognize when it happens. Probably not something you'll be able to comprehend when you see it for what it is.
no objection