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=== News Update ===
America Is the Rogue Nation
by Charley Reese - June 28, 2008
One gets the impression that there are some
people in Washington who believe that Israel or
the U.S. can bomb Iran's nuclear reactors, fly
home, and it will be mission complete.
It makes you wonder if perhaps there is a virus
going around that is gradually making people
stupid. If we or Israel attack Iran, we will have
a new war on our hands. The Iranians are not going to shrug off
an attack and say, "You naughty boys, you."
Consider how much trouble Iraq has given us. Some
4,000 dead and 29,000 wounded, a half a trillion
dollars in cost and still climbing, and five
years later, we cannot say that the country is pacified.
Iraq is a small country compared with Iran. Iran
has about 70 million people. Its western
mountains border the Persian Gulf. In other
words, its missiles and guns look down on the U.S. ships below it. And it has
lots of missiles, from short-range to
intermediate-range (around 2,200 kilometers).
More to the point, it has been equipped by Russia
with the fastest anti-ship missile on the planet.
The SS-N-22 Sunburn can travel at Mach 3 at high
altitude and at Mach 2.2 at low altitude. That is
faster than anything in our arsenal.
Iran's conventional forces include an army of
540,000 men and 300,000 reserves, including
120,000 Iranian Guards especially trained in
unconventional warfare. It has more than 1,600 main battle tanks and
21,000 other armored combat vehicles. It has
3,200 artillery pieces, three submarines, 59
surface warships and 10 amphibious ships.
It's been receiving help in arming itself from
China, North Korea and Russia. Unlike Iraq,
Iran's forces have not been worn down with
bombing, wars and sanctions. It also has a new anti-aircraft defense
system from Russia that I've heard is pretty snazzy.
So, if you think we or Israel can attack Iran and
not expect retaliation, I'd have to say with
regret that you are a moron. If you think we
could easily handle Iran in an all-out war, I'd have to promote you to idiot.
Attacking Iran would be folly, but we seem to be
living in the Age of Folly. Morons and idiots
took us into an unjustified war against Iraq
before we had finished the job in Afghanistan.
Now we have troops tied down in both countries.
For some years now, I've worried that we seem to
be more and more like Colonial England
arrogant, racist, overestimating our own capacity
and underestimating that of our enemies. As the
fate of the British Empire demonstrates, that is a fatal flaw.
The British never dreamed that the "little yellow
people" could come ashore by land and take
Singapore from the rear or that they would sink
the pride of the British fleet, but they did both.
I suppose no one in Washington can imagine the
Iranians sinking one of our carriers in the
Persian Gulf. How'd you like to be the president
who has to tell the American people that we've lost a carrier for the
first time since World War II?
Exactly how the Iranians will respond to an
attack, I don't know, but they will respond. In
keeping with our present policy, our attack on
Iran would be illegal, since under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, Iran has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.
Who would have thought that we would become the
rogue nation committing acts of aggression around the globe?
source : http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=13061
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