sabra
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Fri Aug-11-06 11:23 AM
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Neocons >>"It's five minutes to midnight. The time to strike Iran is now." |
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http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTlkNGQwOGJlMGE5YjAzNDRjNmRhMzY0M2ZiMGFkNGI=Five Minutes to Midnight
One of the best publications around is called "The Intellectual Activist," and its editor, Robert Tracinski, has just written an exceptinally good piece on the inevitability of war, and the astonishing refusal of so many to accept that fact and act accordingly. Newt Gingrich says the same thing in his oped today in Washington Pravda. Tracinski's is much longer, but it's worth it. You need a subscription to TIAdaily, but here's the piece, which deserves our serious attention:
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It is, indeed, "five minutes to midnight"—not just for Israel, but for the West. The time is very short now before we will have to confront Iran. The only question is how long we let events spin out of our control, and how badly we let the enemy hit us before we begin fighting back.
We can't avoid this war, because Iran won't let us avoid it. That is the real analogy to the 1930s. Hitler came to power espousing the goal of German world domination, openly promising to conquer neighboring nations through military force and to persecute and murder Europe's Jews. He predicted that the free nations of the world would be too weak—too morally weak—to stand up to him, and European and American leaders spent the 1930s reinforcing that impression. So Hitler kept advancing—the militarization of the Rhineland in 1936, the Spanish bombing campaign in 1937, the annexation of Austria and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, the invasion of Poland in 1939—until the West finally, belated decided there was no alternative but war.
That is what is playing out today. Iran's theocracy has chosen, as the nation's new president, a religious fanatic who believes in the impending, apocalyptic triumph of Islam over the infidels. He openly proclaims his desire to create an Iranian-led Axis that will unite the Middle East in the battle against America, and he proclaims his desire to "wipe Israel off the map," telling an audience of Muslim leaders that "the main solution" to the conflict in Lebanon is "the elimination of the Zionist regime." (Perhaps this would be better translated as Ahmadinejad's "final solution" to the problem of Israel.)
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We can all sense that the war is coming. It is vital for America to seize the initiative and fight it on our terms, when we have the maximum advantage.
It's five minutes to midnight. The time to strike Iran is now.
This is some scary stuff... :scared:
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MikeNearMcChord
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Fri Aug-11-06 11:28 AM
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May I suggest 1-800-GO ARMY and enlist.
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RobertSeattle
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Fri Aug-11-06 11:32 AM
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2. Reminded me of this quote |
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"The willingness to send others off to die for a misguided war because you wet your pants after 9/11 is called "cowardice" not courage."
Sorry, don't remember which blogger wrote it.
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Fri Aug-11-06 11:33 AM
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3. Man, I haven't seen that much bulls**t since I left the farm! But he is |
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right about one thing..."That is the real analogy to the 1930s. Hitler came to power espousing the goal of German world domination, openly promising to conquer neighboring nations through military force and to persecute and murder Europe's Jews.... That is what is playing out today."
He has the right analogy, just the wrong country/president.
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Fri Aug-11-06 11:33 AM
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Afghanistan falls already Iraq fall already Now Lebanon
OMG the writting on the war so clear
What Iran Syria to go too?
What would the 57 muslim countries say What would they say?
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fordnut
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Fri Aug-11-06 08:31 PM
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5. i think we should leave Iran alone |
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you know it's oil thats making them want to invade Iran so if everyone would just boycott the oil companys then maybe they would wise up and stop this
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Fri Aug-11-06 08:43 PM
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Edited on Fri Aug-11-06 08:44 PM by Generator
Genghis Khan's armies? Are we to do battle with all of Islam and be at war for a century? I thought we liked our lazy ass easy life of capitalism. Yes, we COULD try to kill them all-but that means we all get to die too. Whoa. They are fucking insane. All about an idea-an ideology. SAVE us from the thinkers who never ever fight, whom for all it is a theory. Like Rumsfeld, today, still talking in that abstract intellectual folksy way.
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Sat Aug-12-06 07:24 AM
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Iran hasn't been held down and kicked for 10 years prior to an attack. It's a real nation with petroleum in its veins and hair on its chest. It would be far more expensive than IRAQ. It might require full mobilization. I think we can be certain of no one welcoming us with flowers.
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