We Americans, and especially our elected leaders, need to come to the realization that you don't win a "war" in the 21st century by merely obtaining military victories. Terrorists win not by scoring military victories, but by reshaping how "war" and "victory" is defined.
The military victory suggested in an attack on Iran would mean diddly-poo, to quote Mora Sr. After all, we routed Iraq's army and overtook their government....so, victory right? On 1/16/07, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On 1/11/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >So what's that three and a half weeks against the US? We don't invade, > >just a few strategic attacks. They can't invade the US. Maybe they > >could attack us in Iraq, but we would still win. We would probably > >just shock and awe them until they stopped. > >If they did have a working nuke, where would they send it? Iraq or > >Israel? We have hundreds to launch at them before their one exploded. > >The only thing they have is terrorism and a leader that few support. > >Let's humiliated him. > > And they are not going to respond to "just a few strategic attacks"? Lets > have a reality check here. Pearl Harbor was just a strategic attack, and > look what happened after that. > > Not that I'm equating this country with Fascist Japan, but the analogy is > the same. If the US attacks Iran, then there will be a response from Iran. I > would guess a massive asymmetric style of attacks (think hundreds of > terrorist type attacks on US forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia > for starters). > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224805 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
