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Oh, we'll start it, alright: we'll HAVE to.
Sarkozy is right: the World better get used to the absolutely stark choice that has been laid before it, that either Iran gets bombed, of Iran gets the Bomb. There are no other choices, and that's been crystal clear for years now. We've extemporized, and delayed, and pretended negotiations and incentives and pressure and other silly notions will do the trick. But they won't.
It is so easy to see, but, as usual, the bed-wetters will do anything they can to fool themselves and enough others into thinking we've got some other choice, that we can somehow offer Iran something that's as powerful an incentive as being a nuclear Power. But we can't, and threats won't work, either. And our own hopeful-but-clueless, peace-at-any-price types are going to ensure that we delay so long that when action is no longer deferrable...it will be too late, and then we won't DARE back the Iranians into a corner.
We have a crisis here that is every bit preventable by swift, decisive action, and it's also foreseeable, even moreso than Munich '38. But nothing will be done, unless Gearge W. Bush, the most-hated President of the United States, says, 'Let the historians condemn me; I'm going to do the Right Thing, and at least those historians will get the chance to have an opinion about ANYthing.'
It is my fervent hope that on his last month in the office, he orders a massive strike on Iranian nuke facilities and other military targets. I hope he uses a month-long window to absolutely crush Iranian power, and it is so decisive, Iran won't recover for years. I hope that, starting tomorrow, we set about trying to change the Tehran regime from the inside, and we go at it as hard as we possibly can, like it were the national priority it SHOULD be.
I hope those things, but I don't expect them. What I expect is that Iran will become a nuclear state, and that we'll be MUCH sorrier that we let it happen when it could've been prevented.
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve in the possibility of victory."
- George Orwell
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