Think Iran will come to the table now with what is going on with Beirut?

[cantstandbush]

I don't. Now more than ever they need to work for their own self-defense. If Iran can't get the US to reign in Israel as part of the bargaining then they either don't care about their own people or they aren't as big a boogey-man as the US would like everyone to think.

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. I think we are going to have to come to the table with Iran.

We should have been talking to them way before the situation got to this point.

[originalpckelly]

2. Are you both living in La La land?

If Israel keeps pursuing Lebanon and takes any action against any other Arab nation in the region, we are fucked in Iraq. Iran will probably invade Iraq, and that would start a war between the Sunnis and Shi'as.

[acmavm]

3. Oh yeah, you bet. I'm sure they think they'll be getting an

honest deal from the main backer of the criminal Israeli government. Of course this government is stock full of liars, theives, and murderers as well.

Would you want to deal?

[Skidmore]

4. Why should they? There is no incentive to do anything of that nature

on their part. * is putting them in the same position he did Iraq--damned if they do and damned if they don't. Guilty regardless of evidence and thus making destruction of Iran justifiable on the flimsiest of evidence.

[Jim__]

5. If I were Iranian, I would want a nuclear weapon more than ever.

If they don't have one, Israel can attack them any time the notion crosses their mind.

[bemildred]

6. Iran thinks this is great. nt

[Igel]

7. Why? With Israel tied up, that's one fewer problem

facing any nuclear weapon development program Iran has.

I don't see them needing to work any more or less for their self-defense. Israel poses no danger to Iran unless Israel's threatened or endangered by Iran or its direct proxies. It's Iran that has an religious and political objection to Israel's existence, not Israel that has an objection to Iran's existence.

(And is that *really* a "prophecynewswatch.com" ad on this page? That's just surreal.)