Newt’s Solution to the Crisis in Iran

[Daveparts]

Newt’s Solution to the Crisis in Iran
By David Glenn Cox


His solution is state-sponsored terrorism which he justifies as necessary. The former speaker of the house interviewed on Aljezeera “Fault Lines” program, which will air Saturday July 10 at 7:30 Am EDT, and will then be repeated through out the weekend.

Gingrich began by saying the US should "use covert operations … to create a gasoline-led crisis to try and replace the regime". That the US should use “sabotage” against Iranian oil facilities.

"I think we have a vested interest, the world has a vested interest, in a responsible Iranian government, just as we have a vested interest in a responsible North Korean government,"

It is funny peculiar and not funny ha ha that Newt should use the word responsible twice in a sentence after calling for state sponsored terrorism.The former speaker is advocating acts of war to destabilize a foreign government that though unfriendly towards us has done nothing towards us to deserve such actions.

Gingrich has made his living as a history professor so it is troubling indeed that he fails to make the historical comparisons to the success of unprovoked surprise attacks. He further explained that such attacks would be "one piece out of many".

"I think that the Reagan strategy in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s is the right strategy: we use economic, diplomatic, psychological pressures to try to change the regime."

Somebody please buy grandpa a calendar! The Gipper is dead; we are not fighting the cold war against the Soviet block anymore. We have used those Reagan inspired strategies in dealing with Iran for the past thirty years and nothing has changed for the better.

Gingrich is making it abundantly clear that he is a man with a brilliant future behind him. Perhaps he could revisit the speeches Douglas MacArthur who said, “Old soldiers never die they just fade away.” It is time for Newt to just fade away he has lost the ability to judge reason and responsibility and the ability to draw one from the other.

He is the old man on the political highway who can no longer see to drive or knows where he’s going but is just grateful that someone wants to hear his long stories about the good old days.

Yet contrast this dangerous old man to another old man who sat in his stronghold in Tora Bora and told his listeners that what were needed were surprise attacks of sabotage against the United States to destabilize its government. You then can begin to see just how dangerous people like this can become when given an audience.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Gotta give Newt credit for originality so to speak.

I was expecting "overthrow the government and install a shah".

[zbdent]

2. indicates Contra-dictory thinking ...

[DCKit]

3. I shared an elevator with Newt once. I didn't feel clean for days afterward...

no matter how many hours I spent under the shower. Same thing with Scalia.

I'd probably resort to using a flame-thrower on myself if I ever got that close to Rush, Cheney or Rove.

[Froward69]

4. A legend in his own mind.